From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 8: 9:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF4B37B56B for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02357; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:08:59 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id IAA05868; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:11:21 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:11:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Nat/DNS? problem In-Reply-To: <20000415212715.B46067@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > First, where are your DNS servers? Inside or outside of your NAT'ed > net? I would guess outside? I thought you said that you _could_ ping > any machine outside though? Are we talking about DNS lookups on the > NAT machine or on the private net? Yes, sorry. The DNS servers are OUTSIDE my Nat'd network. BUT I can ping any other server by IP address I want too... I just can not ping the DNS servers from inside. They're pingable from outside just fine... My Windows machine exibits the same behavior so I believe it to be a NAT problem vs. DNS... below are my settings. :rc.local network_interfaces="auto" # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # ifconfig_fxp0="inet 216.36.55.89 netmask 255.255.0.0" ifconfig_de0="inet 198.162.1.1 netmask 255.255.0.0" gateway_enable="YES" firewall_enable="YES" firewall_type="open" nat_enable="YES" natd_interface="fxp0" #Public interface natd_flags="-f /etc/natd.conf" #addition flags for natd defaultrouter="216.36.55.1" #router_enable="YES" hostname="heorot.grendal.org" linux_enable="YES" ibcs2_enable="YES" lpd_enable="YES" :resolv.conf domain grendal.org nameserver 216.36.26.5 nameserver 216.36.0.5 :natd.conf interface fxp0 dynamic yes use_sockets yes same_ports yes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message