[CS-FSLUG] Networking details #3 -- partly working

[Stephen J. McCracken]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> I can now ping the XP machine from mine. The issue was a BIOS option,
> which prevented proper assignment of the MAC address.
> 
> However, I cannot get the XP machine to resolved DNS. Here's what
> tcpdump looks like watching on the ethernet interface:
[snip]
> I have told XP to use 65.90.176.11 and 208.23.212.253 specifically. The
> query isn't getting back in, so perhaps it's a firewall issue. That
> means digging around in FreeBSD documentation for IPFW.
> 
I would guess it's either a firewall or nat issue (not sure for BSD, but 
you usually need to turn on IP forwarding explicitly in Linux).

Another suggestion would be for you to load up a caching name server on 
your local BSD box so all queries don't need to go out to your ISP. 
Then thud would be the primary nameserver with the others as secondary 
and terciary.