So close! Still no net access

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi all,

I’ve made progress since I last posted here, i’ll briefly explain my situation and where i’m at, and my problem.

I have a large network that I am connecting to the ethernet port of my RB411, it uses DHCP, so I have set up a DHCP client on the ether1 interface and everything works (from the router I can successfully traceroute to google.com). On the wireless interface, I have set up WPA2 and secured the link, as well as creating a DHCP server and corresponding pool. My laptop gets an IP address from that pool (192.168.0.100 oddly enough..) and I can ping the router, and manage it via SSH.

My problem is that I cannot access the internet from my laptop. This may appear to be a noob question (i’m expecting a lot of ‘RTFM, srcnat masquerade’ responses), but I have tried adding that and rebooting both the router and my laptop, with no joy. I have attached the export of my firewall nat config, but it all looks fine to me. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Jon

# jan/02/1970 00:12:11 by RouterOS 3.30
# software id = ####-####
#
/ip firewall nat
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment="" disabled=no out-interface=\
    ether1
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Ok, so I got it working!

Turned out to be a DNS problem, I just ticked allow remote requests in the DNS panel…

Is this a bad thing? Should it be this way? I don’t fully understand what this does but it seems to work!

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It means that the router will accept DNS queries from the world and resolve them itself, and then serve the reply back to the client as well as cache it should the same resolution request be made again.

That’s certainly doable, alternatively you could just configure the DHCP server to hand out the ISP’s nameservers instead - in that case the clients will ask them directly and you can uncheck that checkbox again.