From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 20: 3:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E5E37B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:03:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thill@umr.edu) Received: from umr.edu (1Cust74.tnt6.st-louis.mo.da.uu.net [65.229.118.74]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02366; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:03:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B8DADA2.6F1574A7@umr.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:06:10 -0500 From: Dan Thill Organization: University Of Missouri-Rolla X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAT'd machine can't resolve hostnames References: <3B8D9E69.C6D52866@umr.edu> <000f01c130fd$86914110$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks... I'll give it a whirl. Out of curiosity, how come none of the FAQs, or the Handbook mention it? Especially the Pedantic PPP Primer? I found endless info on setting up NAT, but nothing mentioned having to use named. I would figure that hostname resolution is a pretty important thing for those private machines :) > > My question is: is there anyway that Machine 2 can get the new nameserver > > addresses from Machine 1, or have Machine 1 forward the resolutions on to > the > > ISP (or something like that... I'm not quite up to par on how all this > works)? > > Or do I have to use bind or routed? (I'd prefer to use neither). I would > resort > > to just editing Machine 2's resolv.conf, but I'm in a situation where I > switch > > between several ISPs on a daily basis. And I KNOW there is a way to so > this, > > Yes. Run named on Machine 1, configured to forward all requests on to your > ISP's DNS servers (see forwarders and forward-only configuration options in > named.conf.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message