From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 02:03:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA22561 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 02:03:43 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA22554 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 02:03:36 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA02952; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 18:57:18 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508030927.SAA02952@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some questions To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 18:57:18 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Aug 3, 95 04:27:50 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1296 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > 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. Yup, any halfway decent bookstore should have the O'reilly books, or be able to get them. http://www.ora.com may be easier if you're web-literate. > Hmmm, okay will SLiRP actually do real ip addresses for the slip/ppp > since I thought SLiRP was a emulator like TIA? SLiRP doesn't give a stuff about IP addresses, it uses whatever the client machine claims to be. If you want to do more than feed a single client, then you'll need to do things 'properly'. > -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[