Guest fox757 Posted November 4, 2002 Report Share Posted November 4, 2002 I have installed Mandrake 9 and configured it as a Firewall (shorewall) and DHCP server. When bringing up a machine behind the wall, the dns server information is not being passed (or it is being passed incorrectly). The firewall/DHCP server is configured to use one address (66.x.x.x), and the client machine's (when doing a NSlookup) are reporting the firewall server as the Name server (192.168.x.x). I need the clients to point to an outside nameserver (66.x.x.x) and not the firewall/dhcp server. btw - the resolv.conf file on the server shows the correct nameserver (66.x.x.x) any help appreciated... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 i don't understand? you want the clients to have there primary dns lookup to be a dns server that it out side you network? if so you set the clients dns to the ip of the external dns server mandrake control center -> network and internet -> connection -> wizard -> blah -> blah -> dns (between host name and gateway) set it to the external dns server. am i missing something here? can your clients reach the external dns from behind the firewall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fox757 Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 Yes, I wanted the DHCP server to pass the name server information of the outside DNS server. I found what I was looking for in dhcpd.conf. just an oversight on my part. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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