From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 01:16:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA23056 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA23031 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10624; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:16:09 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34D19A5B.EE3BD1B0@tdx.co.uk> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:16:11 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Croyle CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping DNS lookups local References: <86zpke38pb.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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