Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:16:26 -0600 From: "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com> To: "northern snowfall" <dbailey27@ameritech.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: network issue Message-ID: <OE60IJsaJbqJGNzscE800001864@hotmail.com> References: <OE309ww1WySvX5w0Yg80001020d@hotmail.com> <3E4BFBDF.3040308@ameritech.net>
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Ok, i am willing to try out the internal dns server but, i don't know which machine to run it on. Any suggestions? ----- Original Message ----- From: "northern snowfall" <dbailey27@ameritech.net> To: "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:11 PM Subject: Re: network issue > I'm guessing more than likely your DNS server is external to > your internal LAN and you don't have an internal DNS to > manage RFC1918 IPs. If this is the case, this is why pings will > *seem* to fail. They are trying to look up your internal addresses > (which will fail with an internet connection up fairly quickly) > but hang because there is no connection via your ISP to a > DNS server to respond "no, there is no PTR for that A". > Get yourself an internal DNS and you should be ok > Don > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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