Re: Help with IP masquerading
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
bewhite@bgsm.edu
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