Re: can't use dns to access server within the firewall

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:22:28 -0400

Another thing occurred to me... Could the samba server be somehow screwing
things up? After all, I can ping the FBSD machine using the samba name. I
can ping it using the local IP address. The only problem is trying to ping
it by using the IP address that I normally use to access it from outside the
network. Could it also be an issue with my router? As I mentioned
previously, everything is running off a hardware router which serves as the
default gateway IP and does the port forwarding, etc.

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"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message news:I5E9v5.xov@wjv.com...
> In article <ZYednfxz69lvO_TcRVn-gQ@giganews.com>,
> MZ <zarellam@twcnyremove.rr.comspam> wrote:
> >> If you read the man page on 'hosts' you will see that the format
> >> is IP, fully qualified name, and then alias.
>
> >> I've seen some systems where it dislikes having the alias first.
> >> I doubt that is the problem here, but you could try reversing
> >> it to match the specifications.
>
> >Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, it still doesn't work.
>
> >> Do you have the 'domain' line in resolv.conf?  That would be
> >> above the lines of your name servers.
>
> >No, all I've got is:
>
> >search Home
> >nameserver 192.168.X.X
>
> >I'm not sure what "Home" is.  It used to be the workgroup name of the
samba
> >share, but I've since changed it.  Should I change that value in
> >resolv.conf?  What else should I add?
>
> There is a man page for   resolv.conf that might answer your
> questions.   I've never used the search directive.
> If you put in the domain directive then, as stated in the man page,
> you can use short names for the machine and the domain name is
> appened to that.
>
> You only have one name server?  You are not going out to the global
> net at all?
>
>
> >> Does /etc/host.conf
> >> have  the word "hosts" on a line before the word "bind"?
>
> >I don't have a host.conf. I have a hosts, and it does not include
> >the words bind or hosts. Hosts contains the following lines:
>
> I don't know why you don't have host.conf.  Here is mine.
>
> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $
> # First try the /etc/hosts file
> hosts
> # Now try the nameserver next.
> bind
> # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
> # nis
>
> >::1 localhost localhost.<mydomain>
> >127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.<mydomain>
> >192.168.X.X server.<mydomain> server
> >192.168.Y.Y laptop.<mydomain> laptop
>
> ><mydomain> is the DNS entry for the IP address of my home network.
>
> And to answer the question in the other post related to this
> the first entry - the ::1  is the IPv6 entry which is equivalent
> for V6 as the 127.0.0.1 is for IPv4.
>
> Bill
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