From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 7:43:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (mail1.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAF537B4EC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:43:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-20-110-126.bna.bellsouth.net [66.20.110.126]) by mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id KAA14185; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:43:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A801BA0.2030105@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:43:28 -0600 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg MATTHEWS Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dns lookup with ppp -nat References: <5592.981468523@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Its really not that bad. If your internal boxes can't run lookups (they should be able to) then you can simply run a forwarding server, your machine won't actually do any lookups, it will forward the lookups, but it will look like its doing the lookups to your internal machines. Greg MATTHEWS wrote: > how can i get my -nat'ed machines to use my isp dns? do i have to run a dns > server on the nat box? seems excessive as i only have 2 machines at home > (possibly 3 later). > > current setup: freebsd on i386 running ppp -nat and netbsd on sparc classic. > > the classic can access outside using ip numbers but wont perform dns lookups. > > cheers > > GREG > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Cotharyus lauasanf@bellsouth.net ICQ: 8690555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message