Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 12:03:04 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Plyaskin Sergey <splyaski@cmp.com> Cc: "'.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: IRC client Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950414115821.2904D-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <2F8D6B2B@mailgate.cmp.com>
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On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Plyaskin Sergey wrote:
>
> INTERNET===Host1(HP9000)===FW===Host2(HP9000)===Host3(FreeBSD)
> |
> Host4(FreeBSD)
>
> Hosts 1 and 2 run HPUX 9.04 and have everything set up. I do not have DNS on
> the Host3 because generally I only can access Host2 and Host3. I use hosts
> table for that purpose. Now I need to run IRC from Host3. Obviously, this s
> not possible because I Host3 can't resolve names.
Are you saying Host3 doesn't have a default nameserver or it isn't
in your DNS? Your DNS is probably located on Host1 (my guess, being
outside the firewall where the rest of the world can see it), so point
your /etc/resolv.conf on Host3 to Host1. There is no requirement that
Host3 be resolvable by anyone else to get on IRC. My machine shows up
as 140.109.40.248 on IRC because I haven't gotten around to adding our
FreeBSD boxes to our DNS. You might even get away with not having a
default nameserver on Host3 if you put your IRC server into
/etc/hosts, but things like /dcc will stop working.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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