Re: [opensuse] Host name lookup on firewall

John Andersen wrote:

Local ping of the external name is not always the best thing to do. There are some things it breaks, do to an "out and in again" situation, also called hairpinning nat and trombone nat.

The only thing I was trying to do was verify I was getting the correct address. I use Google apps under my own domain name and was having issues accessing them because dnsmasq was not checking the external DNS for them. Now it works fine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org