What is the minimum I need to do to enable my gatway system to do NAT for my
local lan? It is a fresh 2.2 install.
I'm reading the ipchains howto (among other things), so I can build a proper
firewall, which is a steep learning curve for me. However, that is fine,
because when I'm done I want
From: Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: iptables and masquerading
Date: 21 Mar 2001 09:01:31 +1100
John == John Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John You probably should as this question on the netfilter
John (iptables) mailing list
how about
domain dontUthink.com
search lan
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver ip.name.server.addr
? is 127.0.0.1 bad compared to 192.168.1.1 for lan-wise dns?
or does it not make any difference?
127.0.0.1 is mainly for the loopback. using 127.0.0.1 will work. I
From: Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Gregg C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Harddrive Weirdness
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:09:17 +0200
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:14:09PM -0400, Gregg C wrote:
This is somewhat more
I can't say if the A7V and its ata77 controler is supported, because I don't
have one. But maybe the fist thing to ask you is are using the special
floppies for ata66 systems? Check in the disks-i386 directory for them.
From: George Frederick Viamontes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Just your hostname goes in hostname (simple enough)
Put your domain name in /etc/hosts put a line like:
192.168.1.1 server.dontUthink.com server
(or whatever IP you use instead of .1.1
Who is doing your DNS? Do you have a perminate link to the internet? That
will determin how to do
Which you need to get from ftp.debian.org or a mirror, as netscape will not
be on any of the cd's you may (or may not have. cd's don't come with
non-free, which humorously enough means that everyone who wants netscape
downloads it from debian.org, burning 30 or so megs of bandwidth, when
From: Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: hostname/netname
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:11:53 -0500
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:51:08PM -0400, Gregg C wrote:
Just your hostname goes in hostname (simple enough)
gotcha.
Put your domain name in /etc
Doh, mixed up my ata's! I was digging around at asus's site recently, and
looked at that board. But I forgot about the ata100, and so I thought your
problem was ata66 wasn't working. Like joonas, I haven't used it, but I
remember reading about the ata100 patch a while back. It is supposed to
This is somewhat more of a hardware question but it might interest someone
here.
I was installing (with the pci/ide disks) on a system that has very been
running 2.1 for 9 or 10 months (I built it when I loaded 2.1 on it, so its
recent hardware western digital ide hd, asus p5a, k6-2 450),
That is fine for some workstations and very non-critical servers, but
otherwise I would never allow cron to run apt-get and just pull down things
from security.debian.org. I don't mean to impune the reputation of debian or
the security patches and their writers, but on any important production
Plus you might need to edit /etc/modules. First time I compiled certain
drivers into my kernel, which had been modules, that file will then cause
the kernel to load modules that no longer exist.
It was pretty funny. I thought I had really screwed things up!
From: s. keeling [EMAIL
If they're really computer illiterate just say, debian is so much better and
whip out a huge pile of random source code (preferable printed on old
dotmatrix fanfold paper) and start pointing at different sections and say,
see here, this improves delta-configuration process-scale, etc, just go
From: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Gregg C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:03:28 -0800
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:34:23PM -0400, Gregg C wrote:
Why split /usr amd /usr/local
From: S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 00:58:46 -0400
OM == Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on
do a dpkg -s filename and it dpkg will report what package the file came
from, assuming it was part of a debian package, that is.
nscd is a daemon to cache answers to DNS lookups.
From: Peter Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: What is nscd?
Date: Mon, 4 Sep
Why split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same drive?
I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks to gain a little bump
in access speed.
From: Jonathan D. Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody
I have an old AST 486DX (23Meg RAM/170MegHD) that I have been using as a
router for a few months. I installed 2.2 back when it was frozen, or maybe
even a month or so before. I had no problems with it, until I compiled a new
kernel for it, and for some reason the map file was screwed up, so I
I came across a gpl'd program:
http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/RW/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html
Quote from the site:
The VCG tool reads a textual and readable specification of a graph and
visualizes the graph. If not all
positions of nodes are fixed, the tool layouts the graph using several
was noted in the file you mentioned. I've
wanted to dig around a bit in the dpkg info for a while, but just haven't
gotten around to it. I'll check the locations you mentioned.
Thanks.
From: Dan Brosemer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Gregg C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject
Where can I find older versions of packages that did not make it into
stable? I installed unstable (2.2) on a box a way back before it was frozen,
and toyed with it for a while, then left it aside until now. I think I
removed most of /usr/share and some other locations (it has only a 100meg
Sorry for posting this a 2nd time, but damned hotmail treats
the debian lists as spam by default, and until I noticed that
and turned off all blocking it was trashing all list traffic.
If anyone replied could you try once again.
I got the signup, confirmation emails, and my original post
but
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