Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:42:23 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Cc: kline@tera.com, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jbarrm@panix.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp from shell, & starting X Message-ID: <9601040142.AA01597@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960103210912.203B-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> from "James Raynard" at Jan 3, 96 09:30:40 pm
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According to James Raynard:
>
> On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > Could you (or another network-savvy wizard) publish
> > sample /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig, and /etc/network
> > files? Else point me to a tutorial doc?
>
> I don't think I qualify as a network-savvy wizard, but here are the
> critical files from /etc that I use to connect with PPP. My machine
> is parody (193.128.6.83) and the machine I connect to is luggage
> (193.128.6.129).
Thanks for this information. It will serve as a
benchmark. A starting place.
>
> I don't run a name server on my machine, but rely on luggage to do this
> for me. However, this means the resolver needs some way of looking up
> luggage's IP address when I'm not connected to it. This is achieved by
> telling it to look in /etc/hosts first and to use BIND only if the
> machine it needs isn't in there.
>
> To do this, I have a /etc/host.conf file with the following:-
>
> hosts
> bind
>
> and luggage's details are in /etc/hosts, along with various other
> machines I might need when DNS isn't available:-
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> 193.128.6.83 parody.tecc.co.uk
> 193.128.6.129 luggage.tecc.co.uk
> 193.128.6.145 handbag.tecc.co.uk
>
> [handbag is the news server I use, BTW]
>
> Finally, the resolver needs to know which domain we're in and where to
> find the nameserver - /etc/resolv.conf:-
>
> domain tecc.co.uk
> nameserver 193.128.6.129
>
> And here's the Netconfig part of /etc/sysconfig, with the comments
> omitted for brevity:-
>
> hostname="parody.tecc.co.uk"
> tcp_extensions=YES
> network_interfaces="lo0"
> ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
>
> #static_routes="multicast loopback"
> #route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}"
> #route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
Why do you have the above 3 lines commented out? Or, more
to the point, what's the purpose of multicast and loopback?
>
> defaultrouter=NO
> routedflags=NO
> timedflags=NO
> xntpdflags="NO"
> tickadjflags="-Aq"
> ntpdate="NO"
> rwhod=NO
>
> sendmail_flags="-bd"
> amdflags="NO"
> nfs_client="NO"
> nfs_server="NO"
> nis_clientflags="NO"
> nis_ypsetflags="NO"
> nis_serverflags="NO"
> yppasswddflags="NO"
> namedflags="NO"
> pcnfsd=NO
> apache_httpd=NO
> xtend=NO
> dumpdev=/dev/sd0s1b
> savecore=YES
> kerberos_server=NO
> gateway=NO
> gated=NO
> check_quotas=NO
> accounting=NO
>
> Note that this is for a stand-alone machine - I had to return the other
> half of my network to its owner 8-( In particular, I run sendmail without
> the "-q" flag and run the queue as part of my PPP connection script
> instead.
>
My BSD system is stand-alone too. I work about 50% remote,
telecommuting.
Awhile back, several days ago I was able to get mail over my
PPP link (somehow) from work (tera.com) to my home system,
(tao.thought.org). As of this morning I see that this isn't
working. I imagine that this is part of my sendmail.cf setup.
I've been working on getting Taylor uucp working so that when
I am _not_ working via PPP that mail will get across via uucp.
Can I set it up so that mail will be received/sent across when
I am connected by PPP *and* by uucp? Or is this too much to
expect?
Thanks again; I'm taking notes!!
gary
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