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>The problem is that when there is no connection to my ISP, when the
>masqued machine is trying to reach a machine outside my LAN, the
>program originating the demand
>hangs
Yup.. because its trying to resolve the DNS name.
If you really want to fix this, you should set up
a caching DNS server on your Linux box and then
configure your MASQed boxes to use this new DNS server.
This will help.
>Maybe it is worthwile to mention too that the command
>route
>which should print the routing table does not answer either when the
>default route is
>set, and ppp is down.
Try "route" with the "-n" to disable DNS lookups.
>This may sound like a pseudo problem, but it causes netscape to crash on
>the masqued machine, when there is no connection to the outside. I verified
>that it does not crash when the default route is not set, but does, when the
>default route is set, but the ppp connection is down.
Netscape is a peice of crap.. especially when it comes to DNS lookups.
--David
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