Hi,

I have a small network at home, a laptop which does the masquerading with a linix box and an nt machine as clients. All 3 of the machines have internet access ok.

I have just added another linux box which I built using Linux Fron Scratch so it's not a standsrd distro. I can ping anywhere on the internet by IP but not by name, so it's getting thriough to the gateway. If I try anything by name i get 'unknown host'. I have set up a default route to the laptop, I have a resolve.conf file with valid dns entries and I have a hosts.conf file which has the lines order hosts,bind and multi on. (By the way if I put an address in the hosts file I can get out by name.)

Obviously I have missed something but I have no idea what.

Any ideas.

Chers Tony

just out of curiousity, shouldn't your resolve.conf be resolv.conf without the e... not sure but that might be the problem cause it definitly something wrong with the dns.

Doh!

I've spent 2 weeks pulling my hair out.

Thanks

let us know if that was the problem or not.. i am curious myself if that would cause such a fuss....

Yep,

cured it in a jiffy.

Bigtl