From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 17:13:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D653637B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-360.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.60]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA31462; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:13:12 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: Greg MATTHEWS , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dns lookup with ppp -nat Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:11:07 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <5592.981468523@cs.ucl.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5592.981468523@cs.ucl.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01020619122303.00247@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, Greg MATTHEWS wrote: > how can i get my -nat'ed machines to use my isp dns? do i have to run a dns > server on the nat box? seems excessive as i only have 2 machines at home > (possibly 3 later). > > current setup: freebsd on i386 running ppp -nat and netbsd on sparc classic. > > the classic can access outside using ip numbers but wont perform dns lookups. > > cheers > > GREG > > Something in your configuration is FuX0red. I have been running ppp nat for a long time, and have never had a problem with the machines behind the nat server getting out. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message