[Techtalk] re: DNS and IP Masq

[Brenda Bell]

Quoting Berenice <showercurtain2000 at yahoo.com>:

> My machine is the host and its adddress is 192.168.0.1.  
> Network address: 192.168.0.0
> Broadcast address: 192.168.0.255
> Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
> 
> My sister's address is 192.168.0.1 and her gateway is 192.168.0.1

Perhaps this was a typo?  You and your sister can't have the same IP
address.

> Here's the routing table info (sorry it's wrapped):
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref  
> 
> Use Iface
> 139.134.99.179  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0     
>  
> 0 ppp0
> 
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0     
>  
> 0 eth0
> 
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0     
>  
> 0 lo
> 
> 0.0.0.0         139.134.99.179  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0     
>  
> 0 ppp0

Also... it might be helpful to provide the routing tables and IP
configuration for your sister's machine as well.  If I remember
correctly, it's Windows?  If so, "route print" and "ipconfig /all"
should do the trick.

-- 
Brenda
http://opensource.theotherbell.com