I've got masq'ing setup on a RH5.2 Linux box to which three client machines
are attached via ethernet: RH4.2 Linux, Win95 and Win98.
The RH4.2 machine has absolutely no trouble getting through the masq
server... running http, ftp, telnet.. any app I try works as expected.
Of course, the windoz clients are a different story. It appears that
DNS requests that resolve to an "aliased" ip number fail to work
through the masq server. A DNS request to a non-aliased host works
OK.
So, for example, on the windoz client, if you do:
C>ping www.netscape.com
it will fail saying there is no such host as www.netscape.com.
if on the RH4.2 Linux you do the same thing, it succeeds and pings
the remote host.
If on the windoz client, you do:
C>ping www-me2.netscape.com (which is the REAL host to which
www.netscape.com is aliased)
it works.
Asking the Linux host to resolve www.netscape.com,
% host www.netscape.com
www.netscape.com is a nickname for www-me2.netscape.com
www-me2.netscape.com has address 209.143.199.28
reveals that it is an aliased or nicknamed DNS entry.
I get the same results for any nicknamed host to which the windoz boxes
try to connect.
I have the windoz clients configured to use the same DNS server as the
Linux client... which is the DNS supplied by the other end of the PPP
connection.
Anyone else experiencing this? What could I be doing wrong?
Thanks.
Chris
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