Tried everything that was suggested below... still no go.....
Would Samba by chance be needed to accomplish this? I figured not, since it
should have just been tcp/ip talking.....
-Dustin Krysak-
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayton Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:25 AM
To: Dustin Krysak
Subject: Re: Linux surfing the web through a NT Lan?
Sounds like an NT thing. If you have the right gateway address
and nameserver, what could go wrong? You want to contact
www.somewhere_else.com, your software sends a dns query to
the nameserver's ip number. That either goes direct if the nameserver is
on your subnet (ie arp request for the hw address of that
ip number) or it goes to the gateway ip number. If it goes
direct, the nameserver should resolve www.somewhere_else.com on
your behalf and send you back an ip number, and your web browser
uses that as destination in packets sent to the gateway ip number
for forwarding. If it goes to the nameserver via the gateway,
then the gateway should still handle forwarding the remote ip
of the nameserver for you and returning the dns response.
Note: you need the ip number of the nameserver, not just a
hostname. Otherwise you have catch-22. You need an ip number
to decide whether to make an arp request for the nameserver
or for the gateway ip (if the appropriate mac address isn't
already in the arp cache from pinging it or whatever). If you
don't have an ip number for a nameserver, you don't know where
to send the dns request, and you can't get it via dns, because
the name you are looking up is the nameserver itself.
Note: you might need to put the gateway down as nameserver,
even if it isn't the real nameserver. It may have a redirect
in force for received dns packets (some kind of dynamic dns
setup where the clients don't have to know the ip number of
the real nameserver).
man resolv+
should tell you about resolv.conf (I don't have it installed,
so I can't check. You can also do "man -K nameserver", which
will return all man pages where "nameserver" is found.)
Since you are new to linux, "man man" might be in order.
Regards,
Clayton Weaver
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(Seattle)
"Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers
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