Re: Internet connection problem

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 01/08/05

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    Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:44:54 -0600

    In article <pan.2005.01.07.15.54.44.588594@pegasus.oldboy.com>,
    Terry A. Haimann wrote:

    >I am in the process of upgrading my home network from a dial-up to
    >broadband account. The only choice that I have for a broadband account is
    >Mediacom in central Iowa. Now my hub computer (a rh 8.0 box) can connect
    >to mediacom, but mediacom announces the dns address at connect time.

    Idiots! The IP address of a name server has to be reasonably constant
    so that it can be found. There should be no reason for someone to be
    playing "musical IP addresses" with this. Looks as if your "only choice"
    is a bunch of technical incompetent fools.

    >The hub computer has the address somewhere, but the client boxes
    >don't. Therefore none of my client boxes can reach the web, because they
    >don't know what the current dns address is. My client machines are as
    >follows:
    >
    >1. WinXP
    >2. Fedora Core 1
    >3. Win-ME (via Win4lin)
    >4. Win-98

    Oh crap. Windoze boxes are extremely chatty, always trying to find new
    hosts to drop their pants in front of. I'd strongly suggest setting up a
    caching/forwarding nameserver on your RH box, and pointing everyone else
    at it.

    [compton ~]$ zgrep -w bind rpms.8.0-i386.gz | sed 's/^.*0 //'
           1818173 Sep 03 21:10 bind-9.2.1-9.i386.rpm
            875526 Sep 03 21:10 bind-devel-9.2.1-9.i386.rpm
            698279 Sep 03 21:10 bind-utils-9.2.1-9.i386.rpm
            201374 Sep 03 21:36 redhat-config-bind-1.8.1-18.noarch.rpm
    [compton ~]$ zgrep name rpms.8.0-i386.gz | sed 's/^.*0 //'
              6988 Sep 03 21:10 caching-nameserver-7.2-4.noarch.rpm
    [compton ~]$

    You also want to look at a couple of HOWTOs:

             91563 Dec 23 2001 DNS-HOWTO
            287057 Jul 23 2002 Security-Quickstart-Redhat-HOWTO

    >I am assuming that I am going to have to set up a dns server on the rh 8.0
    >box, but I don't have the faintest idea how and what kind of script will
    >be necessary.

    The stuff that comes with the 'caching-nameserver' package should tell
    you what you need. You really should set it up so that you are
    authoritative for your own hosts (the world won't know what their names
    are, so you will need to be "correct"),

    I'm sure you are aware that RH8.0 has been unsupported since 2003, and
    really shouldn't be exposed any more.

            Old guy

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