Hello,

please read my mail "IPNAT proplem" from 18.11.99.
Short:

I've alittle network at home. One host (NetBS box) is used as a Gateway with
a ppp - connection to my ISP. If  I try to telnet to this Gateway from my
FreeBSD box everytime the Gateway connects to the ISP. On the FreeBSD and
the NetBSD box I have the same /etc/resolv.conf which looks like:

lookup file bind
domain mydomain.de
nameserver 195.185.185.195
nameserver 194.162.141.17

I don't use a DNS server each host has in its /etc/hosts entries like this:

127.0.0.1    localhost
192.168.1.1    a21064.mydomain.de    a21064
192.168.1.6    k6v1fb.mydomain.de    k6v1fb

I would expect that the Gateway would look in its /etc/hosts first and if no
entry fit then it should connect to my ISP and ask then nameservers. Again -
I try to telnet from my FreeBSD host to my NetBSD box no telnet session will
be established but the link to my ISP via ppp is coming up. Why?

thanx,
Oliver
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Oliver wrote:
>
> > one question. Is this right: On a gateway I should never include the
> > nameservers from my ISP (in file /etc/resolv.conf) but in all other
hosts.
>
> Why not? How is the gateway supposed to resolve dns names? Of course,
> if the gateway were also a nameserver, then _all_ the hosts should
> point to it.
>
> > I hope this will fix my other problems.
>
> What other problems?
>
>