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From: Gerald A.Speak <gaspeak@va.prestige.net>
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To: Volker Sturm <v.sturm@gmx.de>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: defaultroute?
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:40:16 -0500
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On Sunday 04 November 2001 05:26 pm, Volker Sturm wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a LAN with two FreeBSD 4.4 -STABLE machines. one is a gateway to
> my isp. it works all fine.
> I have put the DNS adresses from my isp in /etc/resolv.conf of the
> machine on the LAN by hand. If I set its defaultroute to the gateway
> machine, netscape will hang for about 3 or 4 mins. If I remove the
> defaultroute everything is fine again (well - I cant get on the internet
> then of course). Looks like netscape has a dns problem. Is there a way
> to configure the machine correctly? Did I forget anything?
>
> Regards,
> Volker Sturm
>
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Try putting the same DNS addresses your ISP provided you on the other machine.
It doesn't sound as if you are running 'named' on your gateway machine.

Good luck,
Gerald Speak

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