DNS in Overland Park Roadrunner

[Brian Densmore]

Steve,

  Check in you network configuration and make sure that IP forwarding is
checked on the Windows box. It may work for you, it may not. I have done it
the other way, from Linux to Windows. But the IP forwarding is necessary
either way.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve cartwright [mailto:stevecartwright at eircom.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 12:40 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: DNS in Overland Park Roadrunner
> 
> 
> 
> I am currently connected to RoadRunner via a Windows 98 machine,
> via the USB port on the PC. I have connected this machine via
> a null modem ethernet cable to a linux machine.
> 
> I have enabled Internet Connection Sharing in the Windows 98 machine.
> The Linux machine used to be a windows 95 machine, and I succesfully
> was able to share the rr connection. However I haven't been able
> to share the internet onto my linux (Redhat 6) environment.
> 
> Does anyone know how I get around this. Is it a matter of finding
> out the DNS and Gateway addresses of rr ? or is it something more
> difficult than that. I have linux setup to use DHCP right now, it
> starts up and gets an address ok, but thats about all.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Steve Cartwright
> 
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