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Paul, comments below...
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 00:05, Paul Schwebel
spouted off about "Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga SOLVED!":
> Dave and Paul,
>
> I'm not sure what fixed things. I reinstalled Mandrake
> last night because I have played around with so many
> files that I wasn't sure of the original state of the
> install.
Understandable. I've done the same thing myself, in the past.
> I made sure I had bind utilities installed, and
> carefully configured my rp-pppoe software, initially
> with NO firewall, since the instructions for
> adsl-setup said that if I selected a firewall setting
> AND I had any servers running, that no traffic would
> pass. Since I don't know how to tell if I have any
> servers running (do you?) I said NONE for the firewall
> setting.
If you don't know, then you probably aren't running anything you want
others to be able to see. It is very possible that Mandrake has enabled
one or more servers by default, but you are safe using a firewall to block
them.
I would highly recommend going into Mandrake's Control Panel and setting
up a firewall. But first, read the firewall-howto (in the Documentation
section, in the HOWTOs). The howto is a bit out of date (uses ipchains
instead of iptables), but at least you will gain a grasp of what is going
on under the covers when you create a firewall using Mandrake's tool.
> Now, everything works! DNS, mail, everything. I set up
> my login and my wife's login. Everything looks good.
> Now I can post the newbie group about something else!
Congratulations, and have fun with your new Linux system.
Dave
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the
places they do today.
-- Will Rogers
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