Chris Roubekas wrote:
Hi all,
I was using SuSE7.2 untill recently when I changed my Hard Drive
and I installed 8.1. This PC is a Samba/Gateway machine for 3 others (running Win9X). The problem is that although I kept all the ports and parameters that the old firwall used to run and retyped them in the new SuSEFirewall2 edition, the direct masquerading that used to work, doesn't any more. I have made sure that I have configured the Network Card with enabling the IP Forwarding. When I enter them and enable the firewall (rcSuSEfireall2 start at prompt) all looks to work including Samba and DHCP. However when I type wvdial to enter the internet, wvdial replies with something like DNS not working and , cannot resolve etc ( my apologies I am not at the machine right now).
Can someone please give me a hand with this? The installation
of SuSE8.1 is out of the box.
Thanx friends.
Chris
<snip> For forwarding to work, a DNS server has to be running. Install the server called "named" in SuSE's distribution with default settings. It will act a caching only DNS. Any request not resolved by the server will be forwarded to named servers in the "resolve.conf" file. A few months ago, the named server was removed from this PC with the result that any address it could not resolve were not forwarded. Installing "named" resolved this issue. The following article was of great assistance in sorting out this problem. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2001-Feb/0002.html HTH. LW999