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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
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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