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

Joshua E Vines wrote:

> 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). 

Say what? You said you "can not allow Linux to take over DNS for the 
network", then you say you want to "set up BIND to work for my penguin 
(Linux machine ;-) ), only".

This is a lot of work for what you want done. You should be able to add 
your Windows machines' ip addresses to the /etc/hosts file on your linux 
box. Then add the linux box and the windows boxes' ip addresses to each 
of you windows boxes' hosts file.

> 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?

You can use lynx to access the DHCP page:

    lynx -dump -auth=admin:<password> http://192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm

but the hostnames will be on the popup window when you press the 'DHCP 
Clients' button.


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