[geeks] DHCP silliness

Peter L. Wargo geeks at sunhelp.org
Sun Nov 25 00:54:28 CST 2001


On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Oh.  I just figured out why it fails with DHCPenabled off.  Apparently it stops
> working as a DNS server when you disable DHCP.  Hmm.  I wonder if I can use
> external DNS servers through the NAT...

You should be able to.  Or, set up an internal on your *BSD box and use a
forwarding directive...

(All of basenji.com sits behind one NAT address, and incoming ports are
routed to the system running the appropriate service.  All internal
systems ('bout 9 of them) use one box for DNS.)

_pete





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