----- Original Message ----- From: "gp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:50 PM Subject: [plug] help me in my DNS server
> I have read everything in tldp.org howto for DNS and I can not make my > DNS server work. What is wrong with my configuration. What do I need to > twik. Here is the story. I wanted to build a DNS server from RH8 so I > can use it in my internal network. After pointing my desktop to > 192.168.1.154 as the primary DNS I can not even go to www.yahoo.com. actually, your dns server is trying to resolve the ip address of www.yahoo.com but the problem is that, the source ip address going to other name servers is a private ip address (192.168.1.154) which will automatically drop once entered to another network enterprise (RFC 1918)... thats the reason why your dns server can not resolve www.yahoo.com you have two options to solve your problem: 1. aside from binding to a private ip address, your dns server must bind to a public ip address 2. you can still bind to a private ip address without the public ip address and use *forwarders dns_ip_address_of_your_isp* and *forward only* options if and only if the private ip address is routable between your network and to your isp network... fooler. > I am use to pointing to a DNS server of our ISP but I wanted to build one > for our network because it is sometimes down. if that the case your isp dns server is not reliable then you need option number 1 fooler. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
