I recently ordered DSL for home and since I am a software engineer and
wanted to get some Linux experience, thought I would install a Linux system
to host mail and http services for my family. Built the system, installed
RH 7 got the internal network up with DNS resolving internal addresses. No
real problems here yet. Since I had a few weeks before the DSL was
scheduled to be installed I thought it might save time if I configured IP
masquerading with the current dial-up account. Dial-up configuration was
no problem, connecting using the Gnome dialer worked well on the Linux
system but the IP masquerading from the clients only worked using IP
addresses.. Using wvdial, there was no DNS resolution to the net.
Since the Gnome dialer gets information including DNS addresses through
DHCP, that's why it worked on the Linux system. There is obviously
something I am not understanding here. After switching the local DNS to a
forwarding only server, still no success. I have searched all the HOW-TO's
I can find, but so far have not found one that fills in the missing clue.
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