[Techtalk] DNS and IP masquerading

[Kathy Wills]

Arashi wrote:

>I've been looking over a IPtables firewall script (kindly supplied by
>Conor - thanks) and noticed that it includes DNS addresses.  ATM all
>I know about DNS is that it maps machine names to IP addresses.  Do I
>need
>a DNS server for my situation (2 computers on a home network sharing
>a dial-up internet connection)?
>
>
>cheers
>Berenice
>
>  
>
I'm not using a DNS server for my setup that is two computers with a 
dial-up internet account. Mine is Mandrake 9.0 and my husband's is 
Windows ME. There are two files that I downloaded and set up. I made 
sure that my second computer had my ip address set up as the gateway. 
 Then I added my ip address plus a couple of the ip addresses for my 
internet provider from my /etc/resolve.conf file to the wins tab and the 
dns tab on my windows computer. Check to make sure that /proc/ip_forward 
is set to one. Let me know if your set up is similar to mine and I would 
be glad to help you get the windows box set up and send you copies of 
the two files.

Kathy