tom wrote:
>
> Well I have dnsmasq installed on a Woody
> distro, and I removed it. I still dont know what
> the program does as I noticed no changes to the
> network, before and after I removed it.

Maybe you failed to make the hosts on the local
network point their DNS requests to the host
running dnsmasq.

My router (Debian Woody, 2.4.27 kernel)
runs the daemon and the workstations
use it to get the DNS services both from the
ISP and the internal names from the router's
/etc/hosts.

Install the daemon back, make the other computers
to use it as DNS server and check that both
internal and external names are resolved. That's it.

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi