did it again, should have been to the list ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [newbie] WinGate and Mandrake Linux problem (again, again). Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:06:47 -0400 From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Friday 13 July 2001 07:09, you wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2001 07:47, Brian Durant wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > I still have a problem connecting my daughter's Mandrake Linux machine to > > the Internet by way of a WinGate proxy server running on a Wintel Legacy > > Free PC. To recap, I have set the default gateway on the Mandrake machine > > to 192.168.0.1 which is the address of the WinGate machine. For some > > reason the DNS is set to 192.168.0.2 Is this correct? Is > > workgroup.machinename localhost.localdomain in the Win world? If this is > > all set up correctly, why don't I get a connection to the Internet on the > > Mandrake machine? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Brian > > -- > > DNS should be set to > > the DNS your ISP provides > > [tester@civileme tester]$ su > [root@civileme tester]# host -a peterlink.ru. > Trying "peterlink.ru." > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31758 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 6 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;peterlink.ru. IN ANY > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN MX 50 relay2.peterlink.ru. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN MX 30 relay1.peterlink.ru. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns.spb.su. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns.ussr.eu.net. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns1.peterlink.ru. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns2.peterlink.ru. > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns.spb.su. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns.ussr.eu.net. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns1.peterlink.ru. > peterlink.ru. 82075 IN NS ns2.peterlink.ru. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > relay1.peterlink.ru. 82075 IN A 195.242.2.3 > relay2.peterlink.ru. 82075 IN A 195.242.2.7 > ns.spb.su. 104451 IN A 193.124.83.69 > ns.ussr.eu.net. 104451 IN A 193.124.22.65 > ns1.peterlink.ru. 82075 IN A 195.242.2.2 > ns2.peterlink.ru. 82075 IN A 195.242.2.3 > > Received 315 bytes from 192.168.1.11#53 in 18 ms > [root@civileme tester]# > > So DNS should be set to 195.242.2.2 and 195.242.2.3 > And lets hope wingate knows how to route itself out of a paper bag and > doesn't use some proprietary way to do this, so that it connects only > windows machines, but instead will connect any machines running tcp/ip to > the internet. > . > > Civileme Dang, I was to slow, but my experience has been with Wingate that it can connect a linux box, so it should be no problem, YMMV. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 ------------------------------------------------------- -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
