From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 12:45:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA00229 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:45:08 -0700 Received: from penzance.econ.yale.edu (penzance.econ.yale.edu [130.132.32.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA00223 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:45:06 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:39:25 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Michael Smith cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some questions In-Reply-To: <199508030927.SAA02952@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -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. How much does this book cost? > > 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'. Hmmm, is there anyway to set it up so that it will give the correct ip assigned to that person? 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!