Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:39:04 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Heiko Recktenwald <UZS106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi Everybody .... Message-ID: <3795CD78.42668769@charm.net> References: <l03130302b3ba2e6f7bac@[131.220.244.170]> <l03130300b3bb2ef261ab@[131.220.244.87]>
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Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > > 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 ?) I think you mean that all 3 German servers are not a local telephone charge. About the MS Long File Names? When I mount a MSDOS drive I get Long File Names, other than that I am not sure what you mean. > > 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... You might ask somebody with more experience than me. I use ppp as 'user'. > 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 > Do you mean the name of your machine, localhost? I cannot be sure. An example; my machine, the box that will become a network gateway is called, maleline.section.one, this is not a valid name except to the boxes I will connect locally. Other than that I cannot answer. English? Don't worry about. You should hear what my southern accent does to it, and anyway when I was studying at AEG the guys there used english as a courtesy to me. All I can do is read some German comments in a Assembler coded program they wrote. -dutch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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