From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 15:51:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (sheridan.tninet.se [195.100.94.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05AF37B402 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 15:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h27n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.27]) by sheridan.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 916108.717864.1015.0s4240409sheridan ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:51:04 +0100 Message-ID: <3C8A9FE9.F4EB3383@cs.umu.se> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:51:05 +0100 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arthur Drake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to a natd machine from within the network References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arthur Drake wrote: > > Thanks a lot, adding the address of the internal machine to /etc/resolv.conf > fixed it... but unfortunately it doesn't scale too well. Almost all of the > machines on the internal network use dhcp to get an ip address, so I guess I > have to either add 250 or so entries to the /etc/hosts file, or change the > behavior of FBSD. I guess it doesn't like ip addresses that don't reverse > dns properly? Hmmm... > > Anyway, thanks a lot for the help. Now that I have a workable solution and > a starting point, I can try to find a better solution to the problem. > > Thanks, > Art By now knowing this, that you have that many computers on the inside network and wants to use DHCP I would go for the suggestion from G D McKee, an own DHCP-server and DNS-server. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message