On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I got my system put together. I have booted a Gentoo 10 CD. This is the > setup as far as the network goes. > > Internet > > DSL modem > > Gentoo rig named smoker > > New rig, no name yet. Lightening will work for now. ;-) > > I got it working from internet to modem to Gentoo rig as usual. I also can > ping, BY IP, my Gentoo rig smoker from lightening. I cannot get smoker to > resolve the traffic from Lightening to the internet. When I try to ping > google, it sits there for a bit and I see traffic from Lightening on gkrellm > but it never forwards to the internet. After a bit, it says " ping: unknown > host google.com". >
So lightening talks through smoker right? That is, lightening is not connected to the modem? Is smoker running a DNS server? Does /etc/resolv.conf on smoker point to that local DNS server and lookups work? What is in /etc/resolv.conf on lightening? Is IP forwarding enabled on smoker? > I'm pretty sure the issue is smoker. I went through this before and my old > script doesn't work. Basically, smoker isn't forwarding the traffic from > Lightening to the internet. I been following the home router howto and > even turned the commands they list into s new script. Still no workey. > If you're correct then ip forwarding is off; cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_foward should be 1. If its 0 then smoker is not routing, and you need to make it do that!
