[lug] Masq'ing w/ W9x Clients

winrip winrip at fpcc.net
Thu Dec 7 19:24:56 MST 2000


Point the 9X machines at your ISP's DNS sever IP for the DNS properties.
That's what I do from here...



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Karns" <jkarns at csd.net>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 6:36 PM
Subject: [lug] Masq'ing w/ W9x Clients


> After using a canned ipchains / masq scipt, I seem to be able to access
> www sites from a 2nd Linux box on the LAN.  I can also ping IP@'s from a
> W9x client, but I can't get name resolution, as web URL's given to
> Netscape on the W9x client won't resolve.
>
> Is this situation best handled via proxy on the masq / dialup linux
> machine?  I have the W9x IP config for the NIC pointing to the Linux
> dialup machine NIC IP@ as default gateway, but I'm missing something
> here.
>
> I've also tried setting up the W9x NIC with a DNS address of the Linux
> machine, and running a caching name server on the Linux machine.  I'm
> lost!
>
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