From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 13 0:23:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5352B37B5D3; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@happygiraffe.net) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk ([158.152.54.180]) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12UQ8R-000Iut-0B; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:23:31 +0000 Received: by myrddin.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66C7A2163; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:16:40 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:16:40 +0000 To: Joe Abley Cc: Dominic Mitchell , Brian Somers , Nik Clayton , Lee Johnston , freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) Message-ID: <20000313081639.A348@myrddin.demon.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Abley , Dominic Mitchell , Brian Somers , Nik Clayton , Lee Johnston , freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200003100835.IAA00469@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20000311000931.A349@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <20000311181152.A1206@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <20000313002106.A32502@patho.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000313002106.A32502@patho.gen.nz>; from Joe Abley on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:21:08AM +1300 From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:21:08AM +1300, Joe Abley wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 06:11:52PM +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > * We need to sit down together and figure out 90% of the variables > > needed to configure each service for an isp. There are a number of > > issues involved. The biggie for me is how to do resolv.conf > > correctly, even in the case of multiple isp's (not all of them give > > DNS configuration through IPCP). > > There are complications in selecting which number to dial, too. > For example, here in NZ: [snip] > I see in the Demon example you used 0845, which is cheating :) I'm > not sure a totally generic solution is even possible, but it'd be > nice to be flexible. Well, I'm sure a gfeneric solution is possible; I do actually like the idea of the "dialling locations" feature in win95. However, for the moment, I think it's best to just put a reminder in the program stating that the configuration assumes a national phone number and no pabx (edit if required). We can then revisit this area when we have some more functionality in place. > Mmm. Why don't people store this kind of thing in the DNS? > > clearnet.auckland.nz.dial.isp-access.net. IN TXT "09-9123050" > clearnet.national.nz.dial.isp-access.net. IN TXT "0508550050" > iprolink.national.nz.dial.isp-access.net. IN TXT "086747765" > iprolink.auckland.nz.dial.isp-access.net. IN TXT "09-3590707" > > or something :) > > Oh, no -- wait a minute, I knew this sounded familiar: > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-roamops-phonebook-xml-03.txt > > XML anyone? I'd like to stick to the base system if possible; and there's no XML parser there. :-( I think it would be a good idea though. -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message