Thanks a lot. Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian Taralunga" <seba@xxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 4:38 AM Subject: Re: IP masquerading in Linux > Hello Victor, > > You have to specify a nameserver for the clients. IP > masquerading simply means that the gateway passes all > requests to the outside world and knows how to handle back > the responses. If you do not specify a nameserver, the > clients simply do not know whom to send their > name-resolution requests... > > If you want to have the name-server handle your DNS requests > as well you will have to either install a name-server on the > gateway or to use transparent proxy and redirect (using > ipchains) all the DNS requests from the clients to the > appropriate name-servers. > > Best Regards, > > Sebastian > ___________________________________________________________ > Office: (+40)/1/6.504.430 Mob: (+40)/92/202.086 > Snail: Sebastian Taralunga, C.P. 13-20, Bucharest, Romania > E-mail: seba at tcx.ro WWW: http://www.tcx.ro > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote: > > > Hello, listers! > > I know some of you already setup IP masquerading on your machines, therefore > > a question. Did you have to specify DNS servers for both client and the > > server or just for the server? Initially, I thought that once the serverhas > > a list of search domains, the client shouldn't care about them, it just > > sends IP packets out to the server. Server forwards them to the output > > chain. Apparently, it looks as though client also needs to have a DNS entry > > to be able to convert names into IP addresses, which are then sent to the > > server anyway. WIndows98 Second Edition resolved this problem by letting the > > client specify only the address of a gateway, yes, even in the DNS field, > > gateway knowing its own search domains, figures out on its own how to > > convert names into IP's. > > Perhaps I am doing something wrong here? > > > > Regards, > > Vic > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
