-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 February 2003 12:30 pm, 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. Set up the gateway as a caching nameserver and point your intranet machines to it. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-3.html Don't forget to poke a hole in the firewall for port 53 tcp/udp. > John > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > - -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt =========================================== The difference between robbery and taxes is simple: The first is someone threatening to hurt you if you do not give them your money. The second is legal. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+V/VdSEs8eqGTwqYRAjeSAJ4qUbhCLc0aF6O1574jZ39TDIC0IgCeK4n7 K8vXcKs2IsfASGdF3eNTyu0= =eLZ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
