System Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Should the other computers on the network behind the computer using
> ipfwadm use as their dns server the same machine ipfwadm is run on and
> if so does it need to be configured to run as a nameserver, or do they
> need to be pointed to real nameservers, or does it not matter at all?
It matters a lot, as you can see by the fact that it doesn't work right
now. :)
If you point the clients behind the masq firewall at the masq box as
their DNS server, then obviously that server will need to be running a
DNS nameserver daemon. It is easy to install, and not too difficult to
get it running in a caching-only arrangement.
If you don't want to go to that trouble, you can certainly configure the
clients to talk directly to external nameservers; masq will allow them
to make requests and receive replies, without any configuration on your
part (other than to allow UDP to be masqueraded, of course).
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