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By: Fred Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On: Tuesday, February 20, 2001, 9:13:30 AM
Re: [Miami] Re: Miami and Sygate?
Hi Fred,
>> Here goes, the solution was VERY simple, IF you know it: It was JUST the
>> DNS server which on PC seems to work with an INTERN number (for example,
>> in my case 192.168.0.1) it had to be an OUTSIDE dns number!!!! Any DNS
>> number from a host, but ofcourse your own provider is best will do!!!!
>> :D
> That's correct for the Amiga, but it doesn't make sense that the private
> IP would work for DNS on the PC unless there's a server at that IP. This
> raises a couple of questions:
>
> 2) Is it possible that Sygate includes its own DNS server as a way of
> handling certain naming problems, but that server was not accessible to
> the Amiga, perhaps due to a configuration problem?
I think Sygate relays DNS enquiries, so the networked computers are
configured to find a DNS server at the gateway, and it does the actualy
DNS enquiry. Something like that anyway. I read the poor documentation
on an ancient version, and that seemed to be the gist of it.
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