Help with Networking/DNS

[Aurel Wisse]

Russ,

Try this link:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

If I understand this correctly, there is a way to set
up a caching nameserver on your iMac which would save
the resolving information for your most visited sites.


Aurel Wisse


--- Russ Harlan <rharlan2@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm running YDL 2.2 on a rev. A iMac. I'm really
> pleased with the 
> stability and performance.
> 
> I'm trying to network the machine into my home
> network. I 
> originally had set it up to get a DHCP IP from my
> Linksys router, 
> but needed to change to a static ip because I have
> to forward port 
> 80 from the router in order to be able to serve a
> web page from the 
> machine.
> 
> I managed to fumble through the setup and got things
> working, but 
> here's my problem: the iMac occasionally "loses"
> it's connection. 
> For instance, it will say "could not resolve" when I
> am browsing 
> the web, and when I try to ping I get "host
> unreachable". A restart 
> of the machine resolves the issue temporarily, but
> after an 
> unspecifiable time it gets "lost" again.
> 
> Btw, I couldn't find any GUI in YDL for this set up,
> so I did it 
> strictly by editing files like
> /etc/systemconfig/network.
> 
> If it helps, I use a cable modem, a Linksys router,
> and I don't 
> "own" my DNS. (I do have a domain name that I own.)
> I set things up 
> just using the DNS addresses from my ISP, and the
> router's IP is 
> set as the gateway per the router instructions. I'm
> guessing my 
> problem has something to do with the way DNS is
> setup on the 
> machine (or isn't set up.)
> 
> I've totally new to this, and would appreciate any
> help. I'll 
> provide any logs or files you all need to step me
> through what I've 
> done incorrectly. Thanks.
> 
> --
> Russ Harlan
> 
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