Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:27:50 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some questions Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950803042057.3328q-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508030751.RAA02805@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: Hi Mike and everyone, > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > Hi everyone, > > G'day Vince - I've seen your questions before, but I thought that you > should have had some answers by now 8( Well, someone did answer but it got me passed the ethernet part and atleast the machine is on the net now... =) > > 1) We will be running our own nameserver as cosc.gov but how do I do the > > DNS entries and when we register our domain name with other nameservers > > besides our own, do we have to update the hostnames for the cosc.gov > > domain on our nameserver only or on all of the nameservers that are doing > > the DNS for our domain. Specifically, how do we setup a nameserver under > > FreeBSD and also does the secondary nameservers just get it's updates from > > the primary nameserver? Sorry for some non-FreeBSD specific questions but > > I'm sure some of you FreeBSD users would know very much about this stuff. > > Your best bet here is to go buy the O'Reilly DNS and Bind book. Setting > up a DNS is not a trivial task, and attempting to write about in in a mail > message is suicide for the fingers. Can these be found in bookstores though besides mail-ordering it? I know a DNS is not easy but a example setup would be easier to learn from. > > 2) We will be providing ppp/slip on our machine... Is there anyway to start > > ppp/slip from the shell as the server or do we have to use something like > > slirp in order to do this since all the ppp/slip ip's will be routed > > through the FreeBSD machine. Also, would I need to set the option > > "GATEWAY" on in the kernel config? > > Check the manual page for sliplogin for information on how to set a > user's login up to run slip, and the ppp manual page for similar for ppp. > > You can, alternatively run SLiRP, which will greatly reduce the > complications involved. Hmmm, okay will SLiRP actually do real ip addresses for the slip/ppp since I thought SLiRP was a emulator like TIA? > You will need to set the kernel gateway option. Oh okay.... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for you help! > > No sweat. Sorry you got such a poor response before. That's okay, just hope the DNS issue can get worked out soon.... Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!
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