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From: "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: network issue
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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
>

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