Doctor Who wrote:
On 2/14/08, Philippe Andersson
wrote: Doctor Who wrote:
The problem is this:
I'm at a client and need to be on their network to access their machines. I connect to their network via eth0 and am assigned an address via DHCP.
However, I cannot get out to the Internet on their network. They have a proxy in place and do not give vendors access. So to get on the WWW, I have a Sprint Wireless card seen as ppp0. I have setup routing such that all traffic goes through the Sprint card with the exeception of traffic bound for their network which uses a different gateway.
This works well except for the name resolution piece. Right now resolv.conf is set to use DNS servers provided by Sprint to resolve WWW names, but I want to be able to resolve machine names on their network as well using *their* nameservers. I cannot add that to resolv.conf...doesn't work that way. As long as a nameserver is not down, it will not go on to try other nameservers just because it can't resolve the name you're looking for. I could add a whole bunch of names to my /etc/hosts file, but I'd rather not do that. I understand your problem.
Can you not then specify just the DNS of the client ? Their DNS server should be able to resolve Internet names in addition to their internal hosts, and you won't need the proxy to get its answers.
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
Their DNS boxes only serve to resolve names for internally hosted machines.
Bzzt! Wrong. Their DNS boxes only hold records for the names of their internally hosted machines. For any other machine, their DNS boxes pass the query on to another "higher level" DNS box. The process continues, all the way up to the "root level" servers if need be, and possibly down to other lower-level DNS servers until either an authoritative answer is provided, or the server which "should" have the answer replies that it has no such record. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org