DHCP reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Long story short: a friend began the setup of a debian box for me (i'm a little overbusy with work and a very long commute), wasn't familiar with debian, never seemed to get it, eventually gave up in frustration. So, i'm now trying to decipher the setup of a box with stable r 6 installed. I've

Re: DHCP reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:12:59 -0500 Judith Elaine Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DSL router (model BEFSER41). (snip) The Debian box can ping a laptop on the LAN successfully (by IP address); it cannot ping the outside world. A laptop can ping the Debian box

Re: DHCP reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:28:51AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:12:59 -0500 Judith Elaine Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DSL router (model BEFSER41). (snip) The Debian box can ping a laptop on the LAN successfully (by IP

Re: DHCP reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:03:08 -0500 Judith Elaine Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The answer is below. Should the Gateway be the IP address of the Linksys box? I'll be trying that before I leave in 15 minutes. Thanks very much for the quick pointer. Yes. Once the gateway entry is correct (the IP

Re: DHCP reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 12:16:30PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:03:08 -0500 Judith Elaine Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The answer is below. Should the Gateway be the IP address of the Linksys box? I'll be trying that before I leave in 15 minutes. Thanks very much

Re: DHCP reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:20:35 -0500 Judith Elaine Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tested whether the long delay with telnet has gone away, but the Debian box can now see the rest of the world. I suspect my friend's Linksys box has a different LAN IP than mine. The changes to the gateway

Re: DHCP reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Bob Proulx
The changes to the gateway address being used by the Debian system should have little impact on the delay you are seeing in your telnet sessions starting. As I don't use telnet on my systems (I much prefer SSH) I don't have any sure fire advice for you. However, you may want to look into

Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
not the solution. The router section on orion looks like this: ## # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # [...] # Deliver mail to the local net via gethostbyname(), not via DNS lan: driver = domainlist

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Moritz! Here's the same problem; Exim establishs a internet connection because of a DNS lookup. In both cases, the mail gets delivered correctly, but it should work without establishing a internet connection. Can somebody please tell me what am I missing? Can they ping each other

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
Sean Furey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Moritz! Hi, Can they ping each other using names without doing DNS lookups? Yes, without problems. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Jeff Green
try putting the local servers in /etc/hosts Jeff Sean Furey wrote: Hi Moritz! Here's the same problem; Exim establishs a internet connection because of a DNS lookup. In both cases, the mail gets delivered correctly, but it should work without establishing a internet connection.

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jeff Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try putting the local servers in /etc/hosts They are in /etc/hosts - on both hosts. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org GPG fingerprint =

dns in an LAN?

1997-07-24 Thread tyc
Hi I have an debian linux box as server in an local area network, where all clientes machines are in Windows. I have not an DNS server, thus all IP/name translations are doing through the /etc/host file that I have in every machine. I want install an DNS server in my linux box to avoid

Re: dns in an LAN?

1997-07-24 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 10:33 PM 7/24/97 +0200, you wrote: I just intalled the bind pakage,answer the cuestions it made me in the installation, but how can I say it the IP address and names of the network machines? Check out the DNS Howto at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html I just setup my on domain