Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:51:21 +0300 (EEST) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: "B. Carlson" <carls107@msu.edu>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One internet connection for many puters? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005232044200.472-100000@ringwraith.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <14634.49901.456972.803076@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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Actually, there *could* be a bit of a problem with the DNS. Judging from experience, the DNS queries are transmitted via UDP, which poses a bit of a problem with masquerading. My solution has always been to setup a nameserver on the gateway - either a caching-only nameserver, or - usually - one that also serves to resolve the local machines' addresses - in your case, the 10.10.10.in-addr.arpa zone. Many OS's are happier when they have a hostname along with the local IP address :) I do not really know if it is even possible to make DNS work with an external server - is there some way to masquerade UDP that I've missed? Of course, all of the above is invalid if all the machines in the internal network also have a 24.2.222.x IP address, in which case they would be able to access the nameserver directly; but for some reason, I have a feeling this is not exactly the case. G'luck, Peter On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ On Tuesday, May 23, B. Carlson wrote: ] > > I'm trying to set up FreeBSD 4.0 so I can use more than one computer > > for the internet, I have a cable modem. I followed these steps: > > http://freebsd.lanfear.com/howtos/firewall.html > > > > [snip] > > > > I'm trying to setup another BSD box behind the firewall, I specify > > it with an IP of 10.10.10.2 and tell it the gateway is at 10.10.10.1 > > with a netmask of 255.255.0.0 and still point it to the DNS server > > at 24.2.222.33, which is the server of the cable company. Is > > there any steps in here that I have missed? Am I sending it to the > > wrong spot? > [snip] > As far as the DNS, I run named on my gateway so, my /etc/resolv.conf just > looks like this: > > search home-net chnd1.az.home.com > nameserver 192.168.1.3 > > But, I can't imagine why you couldn't just put > > nameserver 24.2.222.33 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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