Setting up small network

From: Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom (Marc.Vanwoerkom_at_FernUni-Hagen.de)
Date: 07/12/03

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    Hello,

    I have a small network of two boxes and experience some
    oddities so that I would be glad for some advice.

      Box A: FreeBSD,
             interface isp0 (ISDN card to Internet provider) and
             interface xlo (Ethernet to Box B)

      Box B: Windows or FreeBSD or Linux
             Ethernet interface to Box

    Box A on isp0 gets some dynamic IP everytime it connects
    Box A on xl0 should be 192.168.0.1
    Box B should be 192.1668.0.2

    To allow internet browsing on Box B, I set up natd on Box A,
    to have packages coming in on Box A via interface isp0 and to sent
    out on interface xl0 to Box B.

    To allow file sharing under Windows on Box B, I set up
    samba on Box A.

    Where I seem to have problems is DNS.
    I get nameserver lookups (the name server is at my provider),
    which result in a phone connection, even if a local name
    (I mean something I put in /etc/hosts already)
    is resolved.

    Perhaps my /etc/hosts is already not correct:

      127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain a-gw a-gw.my.domain

      192.168.0.1 a.my.domain a
      192.168.0.2 b.my.domain b

    Any advice or tutorial?

    Regards,
    Marc
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