Re: Telnet/Winblows. Benefits of DNS etc.

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Martin P Holland wrote:

> >unfortunately - I'd only class it as a workaround.  Perhaps the time has
> >come to do a little work to BIND to produce a temp-link friendly version.
> 
> Agreed. I bet an awful lot of people on intermittent connections are using named
> with a similar fix.

Yes.  There's a new option in BIND 8 dialup-link, but it only applies to
zone transfers and so forth.  Prehaps some added functionality would be
appropriate.  The question is: how exactly?  I guess check for a certain
device up and running (say ppp0) and if it's up, forward, if not, return
back saying "nope, sorry".

Time for a bit of BINd hacking, methinks...

> >> named.conf to make all (tcp) traffic come into port 35. But I guess if port 35
> >> is open you should chroot named and I couldn't be bothered to do that.
> >
> >Isn't it 53?  I wouldn't run maned any other way on a public system.
> 
> Yes brain fart. As my excuse I will say that dyslexia is more prevalent in
> mathematicians than the general population. You seem to have it too ;-)

Engineer - applied mathematician.  Figures we'd catch it from you.  <g>


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