On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, George Georgalis wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:41:57AM -0400, George Georgalis wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:45:32PM -0700, Alan Silvester wrote: > >>Hi > >> > >>I've got my Bering firewall working, but there's a small problem with > >>DNS lookups. My ISP's mail and news servers are "shawmail" and > >>"shawnews". When I ping these from the firewall, they are resolved to > >>shawmail.cg.shawcable.net and shawnews.ok.shawcable.net. However, if I > >>ping shawmail / shawnews from a LAN computer, I get an unknown host > >>error (pinging the fqdn works). How do I get this to work? I'm running > >>tinydns (private only) and dnscache on the firewall. > >> > > > >Take a look at your /etc/resolv.conf on the firewall, my guess is you > >are using dhcp and the isp is adding search/domain lines along with > >the nameservers.
Not sure how they would add search lines... see below. > Just copy over that file if they are unix boxin on > >your lan, if they are windows, I think there is a dialog under network > >settings for the info. > > I forgot to mention, if you are running dhcp, you could add this to your > /etc/dhcpd.conf > > option domain-name "ok.shawcable.net cg.shawcable.net"; > > Then dhcp will take care of updating the resolv.conf/win equivalent > files. I would recommend just using the full path though. The semantics defined for this option do not support multiple domain names. [1] It is intended to define the name of the network of which the dhcp client is a part. [1] http://RFC.net/rfc2132.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
