Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:56:37 +0200 From: Heiko Recktenwald <UZS106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> To: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi Everybody .... Message-ID: <l03130300b3bb2ef261ab@[131.220.244.87]> In-Reply-To: <37950DD0.AB7A9960@charm.net> References: <l03130302b3ba2e6f7bac@[131.220.244.170]>
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At 2:01 Uhr +0200 on 21.07.1999, Dutch Collins wrote: >Have fun. I think this ppp primer is a good place to start. > >http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html > >Also do a search, ppp, network, and check the handbook. The primer >covers win95. Thanks ! I have an empty directory /usr/share/doc/tutorials/ppp, where I expected this pedantic primer. I'll have to download it in pieces and read it offline, telephoncosts here in germany are incredible high. German telekom. And its not part of the live filesystem (CD 2)..., at least its not in /usr/share/doc. (Btw, why are the long filesnames not supported here under Win95 ?) But my PPP (tun0) is running, since yesterday, thanks to the very brillant man ppp and the ppp.config.sample file. For me, the handbook was too confusing, when it came to editing ppp.conf. But using two kinds of PPP is a different thing. I think I should have a user "ppp", using pppd, there was an example somewhere in the handbook. Maybe I am seeing problems where no problems are... ;-) Well, newbies... Now, I have mainly two questions: (1) What hostname should I use ? Sendmail finds a SMTP host here without any configurations on my side, maybe this is part of PPP or DNS, but root gets mails saying that this host doesnt allow everybody to use it, especially not a host without a proper hostname. I think I have to give apache a hostname too, in httpd.conf, that I need for playing with perl. How could I when I have dynamic IP and the proper hostname is never the same ? (2) I cant get the "easy" leafnode running. Do I have to create all directories by hand, /var/spool/news/* ? Empty files too ? I have created two directories with owner news, out.going and interesting.articles. Since then fetchnews doesnt complain anymore, that it couldnt open those dirs, it says nothing.... PPP, I have an old UART, an old 28800 modem, am using 38400, which is much faster than 28800 or 57400. 3 - 4 kB per second seems ok. Sometimes I have broken links, dont know why. German Telekom is providing the modemservice to the university here.......for "free"... Sorry for my baaaad english and best wishes from Bonn, Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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