-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 November 2002 9:49 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I am getting mixed success with my wireless connection > sharing. I am finally figuring out certain aspects > that need to be handled to get it working but one > baffles me still. > > I get a modem connection on box 1 which is ad-hoc > wireless connected to box 2. After the connection, > box 1 can use the internet OK but box 2 doesn't get > DNS - it can only use the internet if IP addresses are > used while site names lead to unknown host messages. > > I have checked my routing tables and they are fine. I > also have iptables setup to NAT. I am just not able > to get name resolution on box 2 from box 2. At the > moment, to get it working I have had to manually add > the DNS IP on box 2 assigned by the modem connection. > > How do I get name resolution to work? I am not > running a local DNS (and would prefer not to). I > SHOULD be able to use the DNS settings of box 1 to get > name resolution on box 2. What settings need to be > looked at on which box to get this working? It HAS > worked before but I have no idea how/why - while now > it doesn't. > > My iptables-save output is: > > # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Thu Nov 28 > 10:45:49 2002 > *filter > > :INPUT ACCEPT [2753:2158267] > :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [3352:376728] > > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --sport 68 --dport 67 > -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 68 --dport 67 > -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --sport 67 --dport 68 > -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 67 --dport 68 > -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > -A FORWARD -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j ACCEPT > -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j ACCEPT > -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j > ACCEPT > COMMIT > # Completed on Thu Nov 28 10:45:49 2002 > # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Thu Nov 28 > 10:45:49 2002 > *nat > > :PREROUTING ACCEPT [202:12816] > :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [464:37631] > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [468:37967] > > -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j > MASQUERADE > -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -o ppp0 -j > MASQUERADE > COMMIT > # Completed on Thu Nov 28 10:45:49 2002 > > My box 1 routing table contains: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags > Metric Ref Use Iface > 128.211.132.5 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH > 0 0 0 ppp0 > 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U > 0 0 0 eth0 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U > 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 128.211.132.5 0.0.0.0 UG > 0 0 0 ppp0 > > Anyone have any wisdom to put forth? On box 2, how do > I setup DNS (with linuxconf?) Right now, I have box > 1's IP as its DNS (192.168.0.1). This is also its > gateway. > > praedor > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com
What is in the resolv.conf on both boxes assuming that they are both *nix machines? YOu should have your dns information there. I had to setup /etc/resolv.conf on my PDA so that it could use the dns as well. - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated http://pgp.mit.edu - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 61. Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs. Is that a problem to you? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.4.19-19nds Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE95mdoxjybQmhmUgYRAukJAJ47EYtev24GroMFLL1FRt8G2CXUeQCgsspH v8Bsxrf5AAVXf+eqEIalp84= =I6LJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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