From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 15:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE10037B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:12:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (unknown [209.105.45.183]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93056443 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:12:14 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7E04A3864; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:12:05 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Donnie Jones Cc: Bill Moran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD gateway problems Message-ID: <20011210171205.N1432@twincat.vladsempire.net> Mail-Followup-To: Donnie Jones , Bill Moran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C14CF23.4070401@potentialtech.com> <20011210220102.82326.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011210220102.82326.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com>; from donniejones18@yahoo.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:01:02PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, I have this all setup as you have confirmed > should be fine, but the computers on the internal > network can only ping each other or the gateway, and > connect to the each other or the gateway (ssh and ftp > is what I have tried), but the pc's on the internal > network can reach the outside internet. > > when I try to ping www.yahoo.com it says "host is > unknown" > > Any other ideas? > This sounds like a dns problem. You need to make sure that the hosts inside the network are using your ISP's nameservers. My guess is, if you pinged an IP, such as 209.98.86.100, it would work just fine. Josh > I am sorry for not providing my config files, I will > try to do that soon, the gateway is not at my current > location. :( > > Thanks. > > -Donnie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message