dhcpd configuration

Hi,

Can someone please explain to me how to make the following work, I've searched the
net and read the relevant man pages without any success.

I had a RedHat 9 server configured as a gateway between my lan and my ISP using an
ADSL PPP connection. I used dhcpd to supply dynamic IP's and DNS infromation to the
PC's on my LAN. This worked great.

Now I get my internet feed from a network in my building and they supply IP's and DNS
info dynamically with DHCP. I've configured my gateway computer to connect to the
network with DHCP and to obtain DNS info. That works fine, I can browse the web just
fine from that computer. However, how do I now pass the DNS info on to the PC's on
my LAN? Just using my gateway computer's IP (on the LAN) as the domain-name-servers
setting doesn't work.

Please explain to me what else I need to configure to get this to work.

Regards,
Marty

"Marty Koekemoer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Can someone please explain to me how to make the following work, I've
searched the
> net and read the relevant man pages without any success.
>
> I had a RedHat 9 server configured as a gateway between my lan and my ISP
using an
> ADSL PPP connection. I used dhcpd to supply dynamic IP's and DNS
infromation to the
> PC's on my LAN. This worked great.
>
> Now I get my internet feed from a network in my building and they supply
IP's and DNS
> info dynamically with DHCP. I've configured my gateway computer to
connect to the
> network with DHCP and to obtain DNS info. That works fine, I can browse
the web just
> fine from that computer. However, how do I now pass the DNS info on to
the PC's on
> my LAN? Just using my gateway computer's IP (on the LAN) as the
domain-name-servers
> setting doesn't work.
>
> Please explain to me what else I need to configure to get this to work.
>

Maybe the easiest way is to set up a caching nameserver into the gateway
computer.

IMHO, full Bind is an overkill here - my favourite is dnsmasq
(<http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html>).

HTH

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi

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says...
>
> Maybe the easiest way is to set up a caching nameserver into the gateway
> computer.
>
> IMHO, full Bind is an overkill here - my favourite is dnsmasq
> (<http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html>).
>

thanks, that would propably be the cleanest solution, however for now I've just
written a script to intermittantly poll /etc/resolv.conf and dynamically build a
dhcpd.conf file containing this dns address when it changes.