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

[Ed Hurst]

Stephen J. McCracken wrote:
> 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).

Yes, I'm researching that now.

> 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.

Ugh. Been there and done that. I can't use BIND because of the way BSD
uses it; no config options for what amounts to stand-alone operation.
The alternative (djbdns) creates a mess on my system. So, DNS caching is
not an option at this time.

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Ed Hurst
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