Arthur S. Alexion on 16 Feb 2004 00:31:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Samba/DNS question 

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kaze wrote:

--> as a DNS server and point the Windows machines at it.  My fear is, the
--> Windows machine is also a dial-up client, with the ISP using DHCP, so I
--> have DNS disabled.  I am concerned that enabling DNS might interfere
--> with dial-up access because the machine may look to the local DNS to
--> provide Internet look-ups.
-->
--> Do I have a real concern, or just a major misunderstanding of how DNS
--> and DHCP work?
-->
--> If my concern is founded, can someone please suggest a solution?

When a machine on a LAN makes a dial-up connection and gets another set of
IP settings the local routing table takes care of these issues. For example
if the destination IP in question is in 192.118.1.102 or in that subnet the
host will route via the NIC, for the subnet specified by the dialup
connection it'll route through the modem. There are then ways to specify if
you want to use the LAN or modem for Internet traffic or if you want to
route btwn the two networks. So, your fear has some basis but is not that
big of a deal.



Thanks. One of my concerns was that, in trying to fix samba, I would break PPP.


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