Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Michael McClure wrote: >> It almost seems like both, but I'm no expert and can't tell you for >> sure. >> Here's what it does...If I'm on a client windows machine (dhcp served >> from >> my dachstein box), and I try to ping or browse www.macys.com, I can't >> resolve the name. The browser returns w/a "We can't find >> www.macys.com". >> Ping from the Windows cmd prompt says "Ping request could not find >> www.macys.com..." I then ssh to the dachstein box and ping >> www.macys.com. >> After a long pause, it returns "PING e108.g.akamaiedge.net >> (72.246.44.134): 56 data bytes" and pings come back. If I use the IP >> returned to browse (this is the IP entry I put in the hosts file on my >> wife's computer for jcrew.com), I can get partial pages, but end up >> being >> redirected to www1.macys.com and not able to resolve that. No matter >> what, I can take any single machine off my network and plug it directly >> to >> the cable modem (obviously getting my 1 ip address), and everything >> browses all 3 of my "problem sites" just fine. > > OK, it sounds like your problem is with name resolution. > > The first thing I'd suggest (assuming you don't want to do an upgrade to > something newer, like Bering-uClibc) is bypassing the DNS cache on your > router. > > Edit the /etc/dhcpd.conf file and put your ISPs name servers in the > "option domain-name-servers" line. Restart the dhcp server (svi dhcpd > restart), and update your windows boxen (reboot or run ipconfig /renew > from a command line). If you don't know the IP address(es) of your > ISP's DNS servers, look in the /etc/resolv.conf file and/or your ISP's > help pages (it's usually listed somewhere online, but not always easy to > find). > > If you need the dnscache for reasonable network performance (ie: very > slow internet connection), I'll need some more information to debug > what's going wrong. At the very least, the output of "net ipfilter > list" and any log entries about dropped/rejected packets. > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That did the trick once I got the syntax of IP, IP, IP. I guess since I have DNS Cache-type services running on my windows boxes and other linux stuff, then I think I can do without it running on my router. Thanks, Charles! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
