From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 27 02:22:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA09480 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 02:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA09449 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 02:22:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from pino.ngonet.be by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA17693 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:55:02 -0800 Received: from koekiemonster.ngonet.be (tommie.ngonet.be [193.190.166.2]) by pino.ngonet.be (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA04607; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:21:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961127102341.00692ce0@gatekeeper> X-Sender: gullist@gatekeeper X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:23:41 -0100 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" From: Gunter Loos - System Administrator Subject: Re: PPP and DNS Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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