[Cialug] Pulling my hair out over DNS issues?

[Dave Weis]

David Champion wrote:
> Yes, your domain does work from the "outside".
>  From the inside, if you do a "ping www.hostascience.com", does it 
> attempt the internal IP, 192.168.0.2, or 192.168.0.10?
> I have the same kind of setup at home. I was previously using DSL in 
> bridging mode, and my d-link router worked fine with this 
> (www.dchamp.net would resolve properly from the inside of my network). I 
> now have an actiontec DSL modem / router, and have the same problem you 
> do. It would be ideal to figure out what it is the d-link router does to 
> make this work... and make the actiontec to the same.

Most routers don't explicitly support tromboning connections, having the 
source and destination of the NAT on the same network. More info is 
available at
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-10.html
You can telnet to your actiontec, login in as admin/admin, and you can 
put your own rules on. They disappear on reboot, however.

dave