interesting Proplem using Linux as a Router

[Romeo Theriault]

Did you add a default gateway:

route add default gw <ip address of gateway>

And make sure you let your firewall send dns traffic through if you  
are handing your internal clients dns servers from outside your  
internal lan.

Romeo


On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:55 PM, Omar Hasan wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>    I ahave configure linux to act as a router.  I have
> set up the iptables and forwarding and the DHCP
> server.  when I ping an a public IP address such as
> 68.x.x.x for yahoo, I am able to ping.  However, when
> I ping a domain name such as www.yahoo.com, I cannot
> ping.  How can I have the IP address to resolve to a
> domain name.
>
> Regards,
>
> Omar
>
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