DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Long story short: a friend began the setup of a debian box for me (i'm a little overbusy with work and a very long commute), wasn't familiar with debian, never seemed to "get it," eventually gave up in frustration. So, i'm now trying to decipher the setup of a box with stable r 6 installed. I've

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:12:59 -0500 "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DSL router (model BEFSER41). (snip) > The Debian box can ping a laptop on the LAN successfully (by IP > address); it cannot ping the outside world. A laptop can ping the > Debia

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:28:51AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:12:59 -0500 > "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DSL router (model BEFSER41). > (snip) > > The Debian box can ping a laptop on the LAN successfully (by

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:03:08 -0500 "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answer is below. Should the Gateway be the IP address of the > Linksys box? I'll be trying that before I leave in 15 minutes. Thanks > very much for the quick pointer. Yes. Once the gateway entry is correct (

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 12:16:30PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:03:08 -0500 > "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The answer is below. Should the Gateway be the IP address of the > > Linksys box? I'll be trying that before I leave in 15 minutes. Thanks >

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:20:35 -0500 "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tested whether the long delay with telnet has gone away, > but the Debian box can now see the rest of the world. I suspect my > friend's Linksys box has a different LAN IP than mine. The changes to the g

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Bob Proulx
> The changes to the gateway address being used by the Debian system should > have little impact on the delay you are seeing in your telnet sessions > starting. As I don't use telnet on my systems (I much prefer SSH) I don't > have any sure fire advice for you. However, you may want to look into