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. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.