Re: Configuring Diald on gateway

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: "zoqix" <http://www.yahoo.com/~zoqix>
 > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:40:35 +0800
 >
 > Hi Robert,
 > 
 > I know what went wrong now. Becos I cut and paste your standard filter from
 > WinWord and therefore it end up as an invalid file for Linux.
 > I've solved that and tried out your standard.filter on my system. However,
 > there's still the same problem. When my client tried to get a dhcp lease or
 > ftp to my server, my server activate the link.
 > 
 > Even if I do a "ftp 192.168.5.1" from my client (192.168.5.2). Has it got
 > something to do with dns lookups?

I suspect so.

 > But I'm using ip addr here, not name.

It doesn't matter.

 > How
 > do I resolve that?

Did you feed in the .reg file that I sent?

 > 
 > And what if later I want to use something like "ftp pc1" (pc1 is the
 > server), do I have to edit the filter to take into account dns lookup at
 > local network?

No.  It shouldn't matter.

 > 
 > May I know what is the meaning of the following statements?
 > 
 > ignore udp udp.dest=udp.domain,udp.source=udp.domain
 > accept udp 90 udp.dest=udp.domain
 > ignore udp udp.source=udp.domain

This says to bring up the line for a DNS lookup, unless either both the
source is a domain lookup (i.e., a zone transfer is happening, although
most zone transfers happens via TCP, not UDP).

 > 
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "robert" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
 > To: "zoqix" <http://www.yahoo.com/~zoqix>
 > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:53 PM
 > Subject: Re: Configuring Diald on gateway
 > 
 > > > From: "zoqix" <http://www.yahoo.com/~zoqix>
 > >  > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 07:29:38 +0800
 > >  >
 > >  > Hi Robert,
 > >  >
 > >  > I noticed your "Yes, But..." answers to some of my qns. May I know
 > "But"
 > >  > what?
 > >  > Thanks.
 > >
 > > But...that the problem is probably your DNS lookups, not the standard
 > > diald set-up.
 > >
 > >  > From: "zoqix" <http://www.yahoo.com/~zoqix>
 > >  > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:28:40 +0800
 > >  >
 > >  > Hi,
 > >  >
 > >  > I've tried using your standard.filter and it works fine without
 > bringing up
 > >  > the link for my intranet communication.
 > >  > However, when I tried to access external network like typing
 > www.redhat.com
 > >  > at my web browser, the link doesn't come up too.
 > >  > How do I resolve this?
 > >
 > > That's odd.  Are you using IP masquerading?