Re: [Sheflug] Re: My First Post - Connecting Linux to the Internet

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> Dind is a pain - you need to set up a hints file to find the rootservers
> and if you are using forwarders you still need to find out the addresses
> of your ISPs DNS servers.

It's not that bad ... you don't really need forwarders, not if you use the 
root cache (ie, the hints) file that is available from various sources, 
including this list if you ask nicely :) Once a name server is running, then 
you shouldn't need to touch it - it's one of those daemons that will run and 
run and run. The only time I've had a problem with bind is when Linux itself 
has decided to kill named due to running out of VM...so strictly, its not 
really a bind problem :)

> Dnscache is the caching DNS server from D.J Bernstein's djbdns - which
> includes tinydns.
> Dnscache can run as a caching nameserver for a network, not just a
> single machine, without setting up a full blow DNS server which tinydns.
> 

Yes, this is a good possiblity if all you want is a simple caching DNS, from 
what I've heard. DJB does tend to write some nice programs (qmail being one 
of them :)

>  First problem is to get connected and ping your ISP machines IP
> addresses then some foreign machines (i.e. 64.28.67.48), then sort DNS
> and ping named servers (i.e. www.slashdot.org - which is what
> 64.28.67.48 is).

Other machines to ping if you want include linux2.cms.shu.ac.uk, which is 
143.52.53.5 (and is the linux box I used to admin during my student days in 
SHU). This has the advantage of not being stuck behind any form of load 
balancing switch or similar - its a raw conection into the back of the 
blummin thing :)


> 
>  I've lost track of who posted the original, but could you post your
> /etc/ppp/options file and /etc/sysconfig/network/whatever chat scripts?
> 

Can't remember if I ever did this or not; I've done this a number of times in 
a number of places ... I'll send it next email out.

>  Generally, if you can connect with a Windoze box, you can connect with
> a Linux box.

Yep.

Chris...

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