Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:23:41 -0100 From: Gunter Loos - System Administrator <Gullist@ngonet.be> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PPP and DNS Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961127102341.00692ce0@gatekeeper>
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At 07:22 27/11/96 +1100, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > >On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Gunter Loos - System Administrator wrote: > >> I'm having a lot of problems again with my ppp-connections. >> I run named, and kernel ppp on my FreeBSD 2.0.5 box. For some >> reason or another, (as far as I can remember I only updated a >> new www-host in my domain) dns doesn't work over the ppp-link anymore. >> The client (mostly win95) just asks, politely, in the right way, but >> there comes no answer from the server. > >named with 2.0.5 will use the primary IP address to send replies. If the >IP address of the FreeBSD end of the ppp link is not listed as an A >record for your nameserver, then the Win95 box could be ignoring the >replies it gets. Solutions: list all possible IP addresses as A records, >but then if an interface goes down, some queries won't get throught; or >use the ed0 address on ppp interfaces (easiest). But really, you should >upgrade to 2.1.6 (or hang out for a week and go for 2.1.6.1). > >Danny Hmm: I'm not sure this is the case. I've aliased my ep1 to be on 2 nets (.65 and .129). But it might be something analogue. I'd like very much to upgrade to 2.1.x; but the box is rather finetuned now (*and* I've only got one backup of it), so I'm rather scared of doing it all over again (fwtk, harvest, etc.) Know of any easy good way to upgrade? Gunter. -- . .__ .| NgoNet - Internet For Belgian NGO's _| _ [ __ ||Voice +32 2 5392620 Fax +32 2 5391343 (_](/, [_./(_||| mailto:Gunter.Loos@ngonet.be
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