I have home network with dedicated firewall box (smoothwall) that assigns reserved IP addresses based on MAC addresses of any network machine.
I need to find a way to configure things so that when I lose the RED www inet input connection to said firewall it doesn't hang up normal home network use by other workstations.
Right now as long as inet is there all works normally however if I drop the public inet input everything seems to hang up. It seems to be that specifying the firewall box as dhcp server as well as gateway is OK as long as it can have full normal dns access to the outside world but gets bogged down when the outside world dis appears and it has to rely on the gateway as a local caching dns server which does not appear to be working right.
tried to use bind9 at one time but that ground this to a total halt for some reason; anyone have a link to good solution? thanks