From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 09:22:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA01916A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13503.mail.yahoo.com (web13503.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5679243FBD for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from josealbores@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030914162252.46140.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.55.26.176] by web13503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:22:52 ART Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:22:52 -0300 (ART) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jose=20Albores?= To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <000b01c37a8c$36ac7db0$5c0ea8cb@mrj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Problem(s) resolving names with natd/ipfw. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:22:53 -0000 Just enabling named solved the problem. I only added two or three "named_..." entries from /etc/default/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, changing "NO" for "YES" and nothing else. Even without modifying de default config files (named.conf and any other, eventually) the FreeBSD gateway began to forward name-requests without problems. But I'm almost sure that none of the documents I read said it was necessary to enable named in the gateway in order to resolve names. Maybe this should be added o I should recheck. Thank you very much. Your help was in fact extremely useful to me. I also prefer sometimes to perform a few tasks with my personals scripts and avoid the default programs doing them. As I review what I wrote it seems that I know what exactly the program does! Thanks again. -- José Albores - --- chael@southgate.ph.inter.net escribió: > 1. I would try enabling named on the FreeBSD gateway and set it as a > forwarder to the DNS of my ISP. Then set all the clients' primary DNS > to > that of the internal IP of your gateway. > [...] > > ----- Original Message ----- > [...] > > > The problem summary is as follows: > > I'm setting up a very simple LAN at home using only > > two machines with fixed private ip addresses either. > > The FreeBSD gateway is connected to the internet > > through my cablemodem ISP's modem. > > > > The problem is that the Windows XP client CANNOT > > access the Internet with alphabetic names (should be > > called a DNS problem?) but it YES CAN do it with ip > > addresses (numbers). > > [...] ------------ Internet GRATIS es Yahoo! Conexión 4004-1010 desde Buenos Aires. Usuario: yahoo; contraseña: yahoo Más ciudades: http://conexion.yahoo.com.ar