[plug] DNS

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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> Hi Jeremy
> The reason I removed the ISP dns from my windows comps was to see 
> if dns was
> working on my Linux box
> On the windows comps the gateway points to the Linux comp and the 
> dns points
> to the linux comp 192.168.1.1
> I would have thought that if DNS was working correctly on my Linux
> comp I would be able to ping outside

Instead of putting your ISP's DNS IP addresses in resolv.conf put
them in 

   options {
...snip...
        forwarders {
                192.168.0.1;
                192.168.0.2;

in your /etc/bind/named.conf or wherever named.conf is on your
system.

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