Why did caching-DNS stop under Redhat?

[Kevin Darcy]

Looks like a DHCP problem to me. Why don't you ask about it on a
DHCP list?


- Kevin
Michael Johnston wrote:

> I finally got my Linux box to serve DHCP... It works great as far as I
> can tell...  But since I've had it working, I can no
> longer browse the web through it using IP-masq.  It
> worked before when I used static IP for every machine
> and it did work with DHCP for about one hour, but now
> it doesn't for some reason.  I feel like I've checked
> everything.
>
> Since my Linux box is set up as a caching DNS server,
> I have the dhcpd.conf pointing to itself in the subnet
> declaration.  From any windows machine I can ping and
> telnet to the external web, but I can't bring up
> WebPages using a host name like www.yahoo.com.
>
> When I add in the DNS IP's of my ISP directly to the
> windows machines, I am able to browse normally.  The
> weird thing is that when I add the DNS IP's of my ISP
> to the dhcpd.conf file, DHCP won't push it out to the
> machines even after a restart...  It also does not
> work if I add the IP of the Linux box caching-server
> directly to the Windows DNS.  Below is a copy of my
> dhcpd.conf.  Sorry this is so long, but does anyone
> have any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  Any help would
> be great!  Thanks again!
>
> Mike Johnston
>
> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>         server-name "anvul";
>         range 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.60;
>         default-lease-time 86400;
>         max-lease-time 86400;
>         option routers 192.168.1.1;
>         option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
>         #option domain-name-servers xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
>         option ip-forwarding off;
>         option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
>         option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>         option domain-name "home";
>         option nis-domain "home.net";
>         option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
>         option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
>         option netbios-dd-server 192.168.1.1;
>         option netbios-node-type 8;
>         option netbios-scope "";
>         }