On Wed, 21 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: > > > **I can not do domain name resolution with my new setup** The ip ... other stuff deleted ... > > The kicker: booting with my old slackware setup fixes this problem, > > without changing anything on the macs. > > DNS is one of the limitations of masquerading. It doesn't work. > > The solution is to install bind on your linux machine (make it use your > ISP as a forwarder). It's actually pretty easy with debian - the install > script asks a few simple questions and configures it for you. For just a > forwarding name server you wont need to ever do any more configuration > of bind. > > Most Linux documentation advises against running bind, saying that it's > way too difficult to configure. Nothing could be further from the truth. > It was true that a few years ago (when much of the Linux net docco was > first being written) that bind was quite unstable, but it's never been > terribly difficult to get running. Nowadays, it's very stable and, > with the debian package, is probably one of the easiest things to get > working....it only takes a few minutes at most. > > IMO, the benefits of having a local caching name server far outweigh the > "difficulty" of installing it. > > > once that's done, configure the Macs to use the Linux machine. > > > BTW, if you're using diald you'll probably want to configure it so that > it doesn't bring up the link every time you want to resolve a name. But > you'll want to do that whether you're running bind or not. > > > craig > Craig,
Thanks, easily installed and configured and now things seem to work like a charm. I still have a question or two if you don't mind. Why didn't I have this problem with 1.2.13/slackware? Why does ip masq mangle dns resolution? Thanks a million! Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
