Re: Configuration router / gateway use

[Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de>]

In article <[🔎] 20000921145255.E19362@mail.serensoft.com>,
   will trillich <will@serensoft.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:

[snip]

> hmm. maybe
> 	# apt-get install ipmasq
> and then after
> 	# ifconfig
> shows your ports and connections are fat dumb and happy (alive and
> working)
> 	# ipmasq
> ?

> just a thought...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look what it does.

In the meantime I've solved the problem by trial and error. I found
that it was the DNS which wasn't working. I use the inbuild DNS server
of the ISDN router, so I looked at its statistics and found addresses
like www.altavista.com.local.net and so on, i.e. local.net appended to
all addresses. So I realised why queries by host names didn't work
whereas the IP ones did (I hadn't realised that in my previous post).
Then I found that the entry "search local.net" in /etc/resolv.conf was
causing this behaviour. Since I removed it, it works.

But in the meantime somebody else told me that the "search local.net"
/should/ be present.

Could somebody please explain to me what this "search" option in
/etc/resolv.conf does?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

Stefan.

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