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
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