DNS and Time Warner Cable

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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Marvin Bellamy wrote:

> Setup:
> OpenBSD firewall on a Pentium 133, running IPF and IPNAT
> RedHat 7.2 on my desktop, Pentium 500

Which version of OpenBSD? I have the same setup with RR and it works fine.

> 
> Hey all.  I just moved to Praire Village, but with no DSL access I 
> switched to Road Runner.  I reconfigured my external NIC to use DHCP and 
> the session appears to open successfully.  The problem is DNS isn't 
> working.  The resolv.conf file is rewritten  with  a "search" on the 
> kc.rr.com domain and the three RR DNS servers as "nameserver"s.  I can 
> ping external IPs, but I just can't resolve names.  I even tried 
> reconfiguring my desktop to use the old DSL nameservers to no avail. 
>  Any suggestions?

Try doing a tcpdump on the external NIC. Are you seeing the DNS traffic
getting out? How do you have your NAT setup? Any IPF rules? Does an
nslookup timeout or does it return an error immediately? 

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> Setup:
> OpenBSD firewall on a Pentium 133, running IPF and IPNAT
> RedHat 7.2 on my desktop
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