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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please Help! with routing and slip Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:24:21 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4e8hsm$9or@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <31079315.52BFA1D7@ee.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tapehost.uniserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <31079315.52BFA1D7@ee.cornell.edu>, weber@ee.cornell.edu says... > >Can anyone tell me if static slip client ip numbers need to be DNS >registered as aliases to the slip server in order for ip packets to be >routed correctly. We are using proxyarp and gated which seems to work >fine on our internal net (pop,ftp), but it does not work with outside >DNS servers or other network resources. No, not at all. DNS has nothing to do with routing, unless you use host/network names to define routing, in which case they need to be looked up via DNS, but that is it. Do you have packet forwarding enabled? You have really haven't described your setup to well to know what is going on. Tom