आनंद (Anand M R) wrote:
On 3/30/07, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
Firstly, may I know what is your ultimate aim? :-)
I tried the above but now when i try to ping www.google.com ping: unknown host www.google.com is what i get.
Make sure there is a DNS server that is reachable from your machine. The best way would be to run BIND as a caching DNS server ('# service bind start' for Red Hat systems) on the machine running the proxy server, and configure your machine to use this as the primary DNS (use /etc/resolv.conf).
To confirm that this actually works do: $ nslookup gnu.org on your own machine.
This works
[ If you can not have a DNS then try: $ ping 199.232.41.10 If this fails, then read on.]
This does not - dest unreachable
This may be a newbie question, but what has http_proxy to do with DNS or ping? Is not http_proxy only for http requests?
Further should not the sysad supporting the proxy specify DNS, Gateway etc., or are they open to Internet? then why do you need proxy?
sadhu