Re (6th): DNS lookup failure on Linksys router

I did check with Linksys and my router does /not/ have DNS capabilities 
of any kine (except forwarding). I am behind a NAT, which may explain 
why the forwarding is not working correctly. I can not allow Linux to 
take over DNS for the network because it is not always on. What I 
decided I need to do is set up BIND to work for my penguin (Linux 
machine ;-) ), only. The router is /not/ setup with a domain name (or 
hostname). How can I setup BIND to extract internal network IPs from the 
router's DHCP and forward all Internet requests to the WAN side of the 
router?

> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:55:09 -0800 From: Eric Wagar 
> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: ps. Re: Re: Re: DNS lookup failure 
> on Linksys router To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" 
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>>> Would it be possible to setup BIND to extract the IP information from
>>> the router? If so, how? Please take into consideration my lack of
>>> domainname.
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>I may be coming in on this at the tail end, but since when does Linksys act as 
>a DNS server?  My Linksys doesn't, and I have never had a problem with  SBC 
>Yahoo! DSL nor Comcast cable.
>
>The Linksys will login to the SBC network, get it's DHCP IP from SBC, and the 
>related DHCP information, which in this case includes the SBC DNS servers.  
>>From there, the Linksys will give the DNS information (ISP DNS server IP's) 
>along with the DHCP IP to the client.  From their, the client will query the 
>ISP's DNS servers.
>
>For both my RH9 and my SuSE boxes, I have no issue at all.
>
>Now, to answer your question directly, you can not set up an internal BIND 
>server to extract information from the Linksys router, as the Linksys router 
>does not run a BIND server.
>
>If the Linksys router *does* indeed run a BIND server, you must tell the list 
>what Linksys router you have.  That way someone may be able to look at the 
>Linksys docs and give a definitive answer.
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