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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:14:50 -0500
From:      "Adam Crosby" <acrosby@ameritech.net>
To:        "Greg MATTHEWS" <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: dns lookup with ppp -nat
Message-ID:  <KAEGKPOOOCONDIOADNANOEEMCCAA.acrosby@ameritech.net>
In-Reply-To: <5592.981468523@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

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Set your internal boxes to use your ISP's DNS?  Make sure you have the
nameservers set in /etc/resolv.conf on the BSD box as well?  The way I have
my NAT box setup, is just to provide filtering/forwarding.  I set my
internal machines (3 windows, 1 bsd, 1 debian) to hit my ISP's DNS
nameservers by IP address.  I found that it's MUCH faster just to go that
route, instead of trying to forward the lookups and stuff.
-Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg MATTHEWS
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 9:09 AM
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: dns lookup with ppp -nat


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



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