hi all,
I set up a network at my home and all the machines installed mandrake LM. Since I want all the PCs to share the Internet usage so one machine acts as the server on which I installed squid as the proxy. also I use DHCP and dnsmasq on that server.
I use webmin to configure squid and DHCP. DHCP works fine however squid works unstably. It takes a long time for the client to download a webpage even a very simple one. sometime it doesn't work at all. the error messege is kind of:
The following error was encountered:
Connection Failed
The system returned:
(113) No route to host
I guess I gave not enough time for the connection but even I changed the time, it still doesn't work
.
another problem is about configuration of dsnmasq.
I changed the /etc/hosts.conf on the server side which looks like:
192.168.0.20 home1
192.168.0.21 home2
.................... ..........
192.168.0.30 home11
and configure the /etc/resolv.conf on the client side
nameserver 192.168.0.1 (my server IP)
I don't know whether anything I have to change
.
the configuration seems ok since I use nslookup to test it. On my PC(home1)
>>nsloopup home2
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53
Name: home2
Address:192.168.0.21
that is correct. But when I use PING command on home2 to send the messege to home1, it doesn't work while from home1 to home2 works.
there is another problem. the resolv.conf file will be automatically changed if I restart the server or even I don't do anything.
anyone can help me!!!!!
thanx
