I have a firewall running OpenSUSE 11.3 and dnsmasq. I use an external DNS that provides host name lookup to my external IPv4 address. However, if I ping that host name from behind the firewall, it somehow pings the local address of the firewall, not the external address. I see the DNS request from the computer to the firewall, but not from the firewall to the external DNS server. How does the firewall know to map the external name to the local interface? That name is not listed with an IPv4 address in /etc/hosts on either the computer or firewall. The external IPv6 address for the firewall is listed in /etc/hosts on the firewall, but that shouldn't be a factor with an IPv4 ping. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org