Thanks everyone for the help. The problem is solved. For some reason it
doesnt like in the resolv.conf
host lookup bind
After i took that out it started working fine
Nathan
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Charles Curley wrote:
> Just for the halibut, it is not hard to set up your DNS server on your masq
> box. It has the advantage of speeding things up: once the local DNS server
> has a lookup cached, you save a round trip across the modem link.
>
> See "TCP/IP Network Administration", Craig Hunt, O'Reilly & Assoc, 1992. I
> had it up and running in ten minutes from the instructions there.
>
> At 07:36 AM 4/19/99 -0500, Brian Tuley wrote:
> >
> >Hi Nathan;
> >
> >All the client boxes on my lan point to the DNS of my ISP, not the IP of my
> >MASQ box. Mail, browsing, & downloading work just fine. Otherwise you
> >have to run DNS on the masq'd box itself.
> >
> >-Brian
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: System Administrator [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 2:19 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [Masq] dns settings for ipfwadm
> >
> >
> >All other machines on the network are able to go to any site if they
> >specify the sites ip address. They are however unable to resolve
> >hostnames. I read over the howto but the setup for the dns seems ambigious
> >and unclear. 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?
> >
> >Nathan
>
>
>
> -- C^2
>
> `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people
> just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for
> free*".'
> -- Linus Torvalds
>
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