Re: Confusing DNS issue behind FreeBSD NAT

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
Gerald wrote: Summary: 2 Freebsd -stable machines. 1 is NAT/Gateway for the other... These are from the machine behind the nat/gateway. Notice without specifying what server to query with dig, it ignores /etc/resolv.conf and queries localhost. What am I missing? (digs are trimmed to practical

Re: Confusing DNS issue behind FreeBSD NAT

2005-07-06 Thread Gerald
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: "What you are missing" is the right filename. :-) That should be /etc/resolv.conf, not /etc/resolve.conf... In the words of Homer Simpson: "DOH!" Thanks for the accurate and quick reply. Gerald ___ freebsd

Re: Confusing DNS issue behind FreeBSD NAT

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Gerald wrote: These are from the machine behind the nat/gateway. Notice without specifying what server to query with dig, it ignores /etc/resolv.conf and queries localhost. What am I missing? (digs are trimmed to practical information for brevity.) Wed Jul 06 12:3

Confusing DNS issue behind FreeBSD NAT

2005-07-06 Thread Gerald
Summary: 2 Freebsd -stable machines. 1 is NAT/Gateway for the other. The machine behind the gateway can not resolve DNS for anything that matters like cvsup, but dig and nslookup resolve fine. By all appearances it's ignoring /etc/resolv.conf and selectively answering programs. As a test, a window