Re: configuration of a linux router
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:07:32AM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would
> you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca?
>
> Not really.
Didn't think so :)
>
> OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse;
> the current hosts file follows. Please let me know of any
> remaining errors.
It looks fine.
Does it work?
Do you have any firewall doing network address translation? If you want
fire-and-forget just use ipmasq, if you want to really understand it use
shorewall after reading shorewall-doc.
What about supplying DNS services to your network? The easiest is to
install dnsmasq.
>
> Isn't there a place to specify the domain, analogous to /etc/hostname?
> Unfortunate that these matters aren't mentioned in the hosts
> man page. Also, I wonder that /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts,
> /etc/network/interfaces and perhaps a few other files haven't
> been amalgated into one. Excessive fragmentation increases
> the likelihood of confusion and error.
No. Each *NIX has its own way, however /etc/hosts is standard. Unix
networking was developed with BSD and was then imported by the other
*nix in various ways. Then different *nix made automated scripts to do
the networking setup and each puts its configs somewhere different. On
debian, its /etc/hostname and /etc/network/interfaces.
Its all well documented and hasn't changed in a long time. Read the
debian-reference.
> # /etc/hosts file
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>
> # Private LANs at home
> 172.23.4.1 joule.petershouse joule
> 172.23.4.2 curie.petershouse curie
>
> 172.23.5.1 joule.petershouse joule
> 172.23.5.2 heaviside.petershouse heaviside
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
>
>
>
> Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.yi.org/
I don't know what this line is for.
Doug.
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