On Friday 15 March 2002 15:05, you wrote: > 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 To add to the previous post and this one, I agree, it seems to work better to use the linux computer as the gateway. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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