Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home > LAN. My setup is as follows: > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > 192.168.0.2 > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip 192.168.0.1, > gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is supposed to be done > according to the Wingate manual. > > I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine I > can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. ping > www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: www.linux-mandrake.com). So I > think it has something to do with DNS. But what? > > My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 > > Any help is appreciated. > > TIA, > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I do not use windows except for trivial things but your setup is telling your Linux box that the windows PC is a DNS Server. If it doesn't fetch that information and pass it on to the Linux box then it will fail. There is no reason why you need to use your local PC as a DNS Server except for speed reasons. I doubt that a win98 PC would be good for that. Your ISP will have DNS servers and I expect they will have supplied you with the IP addresses for them. Just tell your Linux PC one of them as the DNS Server to use and it should be fine. When you get into using Linux I think you will find it better to use the Linux PC as the gateway. hth norm
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