Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:16:11 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping DNS lookups local Message-ID: <34D19A5B.EE3BD1B0@tdx.co.uk> References: <86zpke38pb.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
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Does your name server have all the records it needs to resolve the local machines? - Both forward (i.e. name->ip address) and backwards? (from ip address->name)? We have had a similar setup here - and we did manage to get it working, but your local machine has to have all the DNS records for the local machines (sometimes, a quick way of doing this is to setup your local machine as a secondary DNS for your domain & ip-address - and have it pull the records from your ISP, and not expire them very often) - this of course depends on your ISP allowing zone transfers ;-) Regards, Karl Pielorz Don Croyle wrote: > > I'm working on a second FreeBSD box to my home network (currently this > machine and a Win95 game box) and I've run into a problem. Things > like ftp, rlogin and ssh are insisting that the ppp link to my ISP be > up in order to get started. Once the local connection is working they > don't need the link to the outside world any more. Filtering DNS > lookups to keep them from causing ppp to dial out just causes the > problem programs to hang. > > I've got hosts ahead of bind in /etc/hosts.conf on both machines, the > appropriate entries in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf on this machine > (the gateway, and the only one running named) has nameserver 127.0.0.1 > listed ahead of my ISPs nameservers. > > Any suggestions? > -- > I've always wanted to be a dilettante, | Usenet II -- because > but I've never quite been ready to make | it's time for October > the commitment. | http://www.usenet2.org
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