John Nall wrote: > > Thanks to some people on here I have managed to navigate the underbrush > (and trip over a few roots) and finally have Internet Connection Sharing > going on my home LAN. I can dial in to the ISP with one and then access > the Internet from all three. Which is what I wanted to do. > > However...one small query, since one thing is so ugly that it doesn't seem > like I should be doing it that way. And that has to do with the name > resolving by the PC's on the network which have to go through the gateway. > > Once I have dialed in to the ISP with the gateway system and connected, my > /etc/sysconfig/network file on that system magically shows two nameservers > for name resolving. They are apparently placed there as part of the > activation of ppp0. Well and good. Linux marches on. > > In order to make the other two systems work, however, I have to manually > place the same two IP addresses in their /etc/sysconfig/network file > also. It works, yes. But it is ugly, and it is hard to believe there is > not a better way to do it. (Also, if the ISP changes those, which I don't > know how stable they are, then I will have to change them also). > > Seems like if the gateway computer has the DNS addresses it could just pass > it on to its two buddies.
pdnsd will do the trick too. http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/ -toby -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
