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I running DNS on 192.168.0.1 (the gateway)....

I tried pointing the clients to the ISP nameserver, but no change...

At 03:08 PM 11.24.2001 +0100, Robert Klein wrote:
>On Saturday, 24. November 2001 13:56, you wrote:
>>...yes, pointed to the gateway 192.168.0.1
>>>dumb question, but do the internal hosts have a DNS server configured?
>
>That's the problem. You have to point the hosts to a DNS server.  So you
have 
>either to run DNS on 192.168.0.1, or point the clients to the same name 
>server your gateway points to.
>
>The entries in the gateway's resolv.conf are used for requests originating 
>from the gateway only.  
>
>You could, however, install a forwarding DNS server on the gateway, that
gets 
>your clients requests and forwards them to the "real" DNS server, if you 
>don't want your clients to point to an outside server...
>
>Regards,
>Robert Klein
>
>

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
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