DNS in Overland Park Roadrunner - Postscript

[steve cartwright]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

After a lot of cursing and frustration I got it working eventually.

There's a file called /etc/named.conf, you have to uncomment
a line which refers to port 53. Windows ICS communicates via
port 53 on Windows 98.

Also, you had to tell Linux that the Windows 98 machine is the
DNS server, ie add its ip address into the /etc/resolv.conf.

By this stage I had disabled DHCP, and setup the network configuration myself. This seems to work 
equally well through
ICS. I suppose if you've only got 1 or 2 machines on your
home network, why worry about DHCP in the first place. I
suppose I got to understand again how to configure a machine
on a network.

By the way, I'm using Red Hat 6.0. Other versions may not require
the edit of the named.conf file. 

Oh and you also have to make sure your firewall is configured
correctly. I use the Tiny Firewall, a free download. I had
disabled allowing incoming messages after someone on the web
tried to communicate to the ICS port via port 53. I hope this
isn't a hackable port as you have to leave it open to the
outside world.

Next job.. PHP

Steve Cartwright

Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > majordomo at kclug.org
> > 
> 
> 
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