OK, I reported the content below a few hours ago. There may have been some strange things during plugging & unplugging cables. I rebooted the firewall, and now resolv.conf contains: search cablenet-va.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 208.197.246.195 nameserver 208.197.246.194
I am going to retry a manual DNS config on the win2k box. going off-air to do this... dive... dive... dive.... Erich Titl wrote: > Hi > > Michael D. Schleif wrote the following at 19:18 23.07.2002: > >> Removing comments, please, verify that this is actually the exhaustive >> content of your /etc/resolv.conf: >> >> search cablenet-va.com >> IP filters:firewall[IP Forwarding: ENABLED] >> meserver 208.197.246.194 > > > I agree, I stumbled over this too but thought it was a typo > >> [1] Whence comes line #2? It will *not* work in this file and may >> render useless whatever comes after this line. >> >> [2] Perhaps a typo; but, `meserver' should be `nameserver' >> >> [3] Look here: >> >> <http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/dnscache5.html#AEN280> >> >> [4] Look closely at the third (3) and fourth (4) black background >> graphics. >> >> [5] I cannot remember whether or not you can get away with this: >> >> search cablenet-va.com > > > this will do no harm unless unqualified hosts are searched > > >> I suspect that you ought to change this to something like: >> >> search private.network >> >> [6] However, to use dnscache, you will need to do this: >> >> nameserver 192.1687.1.254 > > > this is only valid for the firewall itself, so the external name > server is OK here. It is probably inserted by the dnsclient (default > set up) > > What does the message log say, do you see any rejected traffic on port 53 > > cheers > > Erich > > > THINK > P�ntenstrasse 39 > 8143 Stallikon > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. 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
