Linux-Networking Digest #75, Volume #11 Fri, 7 May 99 22:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Mail delivers locally when it is a remote address on Linux ("Brian Bakker")
Re: no pingies in very simple network ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cannot access network on PCMCIA ethernet card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lan setup ?'s ("Curt")
Re: IPChains in RedHat 6.0 (Francois Magnan)
starting samba ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DNS configuration in RH5.2 ("Russell S. DiPesa")
Once again...newbie in need of ethernet help (Jason Bond)
Re: Simple Network Question (Lew Pitcher)
Re: LT Win Modem in Linux (Marc Britten)
fiber optic drivers for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: no pingies in very simple network (Rob van der Putten)
IPChains and NetMeeting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Telnet taking ages before allowing login ("Wembley")
Re: IP forwarding doesn't forward!! (Derek Lucas)
Re: ipfwadm (Geoff Allsup)
RPC Brokers ("Thomas J. Clancy")
Re: Lynx + cookies (Wisquatuk)
Re: @HOME Cable Service and Linux ("Josh Devins")
Re: Need DNS for sendmail or qmail? (Dave Sill)
Re: Linux < -- > Windows NT network (Jon)
Re: Routing and router redundancy ("Lee Sharp")
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From: "Brian Bakker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mail delivers locally when it is a remote address on Linux
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 21:11:43 +0100
Installed qmail, which configured itself after the installation using my
hosts file. I have an Exchange Server which forwards Internet mail to the
Linux server, which is then supposed to forward the mail to my ISP using
qmail. Trouble is it bounces the mail back to Exchange and the user saying
the mailbox doesn't exist on the Linux box for the Internet eMail address.
It tries to deliver it locally, rather than forward it on to my ISP. Here
is an extract from the log file:
925997496.189311 new msg 154437
925997496.189506 info msg 154437: bytes 658 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 518
uid 81
925997496.192346 starting delivery 3: msg 154437 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
925997496.192598 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
925997496.202158 delivery 3: failure:
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
925997496.202604 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
925997496.211328 bounce msg 154437 qp 521
925997496.211540 end msg 154437
The mail.company.co.uk is the FQDN for the Linux box. Do I need to set up
the smtproutes file in the /var/qmail/control directory with the ISP SMTP
Server? I tried this, but it didn't seem to work either, setting qmail up
as a relay client. It doesn't forward the message whichever control files I
seem to update including rcpthosts. I am a bit lost with the HOWTOs and
FAQs too. I have tried all qmail related web sites too, but with no luck.
Is there anyone out there that could lend me a hand to get this qmail to
forward my mail to the ISP. (and maybe also mail coming back from the ISP at
a later stage, but just taking one step at a time for now :) )
Thanks
Brian Bakker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: no pingies in very simple network
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:06:14 GMT
In article <7gremp$6r4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> I'm having trouble with what must be a bloody trivial problem. I've got two
> machines, one desktop, one laptop, a hub, two ehternet cards, and can not get
> the two machine talking to each other in Linux.
Problem solved! After swichting off PNP, manually configuring Windows, I
reserved IRQ 10 in the BIOS for legacy ISA. Fired up Linux and it worked.
I told you it was trivial.
Many thanks for all your kind help.
Dennis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cannot access network on PCMCIA ethernet card
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 17:40:34 GMT
Count me in as having the same problem. I've tried the Linksys EtherFast
10/100 cardbus PCMCIA and D-Link 10/100 16 bit PCMCIA card. I running Rehat
5.2 on a Toshiba Terca 780 CDM. Card services can see and identify both
cards, I can ping myself using both cards. The Linksys gives me Tx hung
errors every minute or so, the D-Link gives no errors. Thanks in advance for
any help.
Thanks,
John
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dennis Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 Mobile Adapter PCMCIA
> ehternet card in an IBM Thinkpad 850ED running Redhat 5.2. I cannot
> see anything on the network . The card services see the adapter and the
> module is loaded, the IP interface is configured and I can ping myself,
> but nothing gets onto the wire. I also tried an IBM CreditCard ethernet
> adapter with the same results. Cardctl ident shows the information
> about the adapters. Any ideas what is wrong?
>
> Denny
>
>
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Reply-To: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lan setup ?'s
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 17:55:57 -0500
Should be able to work. I think you'll need to masquerade both 192.168.1.0
and 192.168.32.0 segments,
on your firewall (Computer A). Something like:
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.32.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
See http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html
On Computer B, no masquerading, just forwarding.
Aubrey Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I am trying to set up my home LAN to include a dedicated linux
firewall
> box. LAN consists of 1 WIN95 box (Computer C) and 1 RH Linux 5.2 box
> (Computer B) connected through a HUB on network 192.168.1.0. I want to
add
> the third computer as a firewall box for the LAN (Computer A) running RH
> Linux 5.2. on network 192.168.32.0. and my ISP through ppp0. I have added
> the second ethernet card (eth1) to Computer B. Installed RH 5.2 and
> ethernet card (eth0) in the Computer A.
>
> Now, is it possible to connect Computer A (firewall/internet) to Computer
C
> with a "crossover" cable and route internet packets from Computer A to
> Computer B (eth0, eth1) & C?
>
> Computer A address = 192.168.32.1 eth0
> Computer B address = 192.168.1.1 eth0
> Computer B address = 192.168.32.254 eth1
> Computer C address = 192.168.1.2 eth0
>
> Have read NET-3-HOWTO, Ethernet HOWTO, etc. and tried all I can think of.
> Maybe the setup I am trying to configure is not possible, if so I
apologize
> for wasting the groups time and the net bandwith.
>
> Thanks for any help/advice/references, aubrey
>
>
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Subject: Re: IPChains in RedHat 6.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francois Magnan)
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 19:39:52 GMT
You are right! My question was a pretty trivial one. I just found I
forgot to run lilo after the change of kernel. Sorry, my mistake.
This is therefore a great way to upgrade the kernel without have to
build anything. LiNUX is very impressing in these kind of situations.
Thank you for the support.
Francois Magnan
On 05/07/99, "d. martin" wrote:
>Your probably still on the old kernel. Red Hat has full instructions
for
>kernel upgrade on 5.2 on their Web site in the support section. Did
you read
>these.
>
>
>Francois Magnan wrote in message ...
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have RedHat 5.2 installed on my 486 router. I would like to use
>>ipchains to forward the X windows ports to internal machines so I
can
>>run X apps on external machines and be able to display on an
internal
>>machine.
>>
>>I don't have enough hard-disk space to install a c compiler to
>>recompile a new kernel version but I installed the kernel2.2.5-15
rpm
>>and edited /etc/lilo.conf to make lilo boot the new kernel.
>>
>>When I try to run ipchains I get an error message:
>>ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel
>>
>>What did I do wrong?
>>Thank you,
>>Francois Magnan
>>
>>--
>>______________________________________________________
>>Francois Magnan
>>Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
>>Universite de Montreal
>>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
>>
>
>
>
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______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: starting samba
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:44:59 GMT
Hello I am running samba on redhat 6.0 and and I am wondering how do i make it
start automatically at boot
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From: "Russell S. DiPesa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DNS configuration in RH5.2
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:03:17 -0400
To all,
I just finished going through the DNS HOWTO again and I still can't find
a solution to my problem. I am not sure if it is a DNS or a Sendmail
problem, though. It goes like this. My domain (let's call it MYDOMAIN.COM)
has a domain server called APOLO.MYDOMAIN.COM. I am unable to send mail to
users in this domain using just the domain name. I am., however, able to
send mail to users using the domain server name.
For example, this works
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
but this doesn't
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
I don't want to have to specify the domain server, just the domain.
The domain MYDOMAIN.COM consists of one machine that acts as a mail, ftp,
web, and nameserver. Does anyone know how I can force the machine to accept
mail addressed to MYDOMAIN.COM, instead of APOLO.MYDOMAIN.COM?
Russ
P.S. It used to work the way I would like it to work before the machine
crashed and I had to replace it.
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Once again...newbie in need of ethernet help
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 17:44:58 -0700
Ok...sorry for being such a moron....Here is the output from
ifconfig:
(root@blah: /sbin) ./ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING
MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:CA:11:87:66
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST
MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:18832 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:28247
TX packets:8 errors:37 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:36
collisions:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe400
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:207.217.14.133 P-t-P:207.217.95.11
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1524
Metric:1
RX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Memory:2ad4038-2ad4c34
and from route:
(root@blah: /sbin) ./route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
Ref Use Iface
max7.ucla-ca-us * 255.255.255.255 UH 0
0 0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 7
eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 5
lo
default max7.ucla-ca-us 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
4 ppp0
(root@blah: /sbin) cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-009f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0220-022f : soundblaster
0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
0376-0376 : ide1
0388-038b : Yamaha OPL3
03c0-03df : vga+
03e8-03ef : serial(auto)
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
e400-e47f : eth0
f000-f007 : IDE DMA
f008-f00f : IDE DMA
and
(root@blah: /sbin) cat /proc/interrupts
0: 705285 timer
1: 4532 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
4: 29362 + serial
5: 18813 eth0
7: 1 soundblaster
8: 1 + rtc
12: 115921 PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 math error
14: 139399 + ide0
15: 3567 + ide1
Again...my humble thanks....
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Simple Network Question
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:07:16 -0400
(I'm wearing my other hat, now)
Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
> Well, how do you like reading??
>
> You are going to need...
> a) a NIC from the Linux Hardware Compatability list (or equivalent)
> b) a Linux kernel gen'ed with Ethernet and TCP/IP support, including...
> - hardware support for your NIC
> - IP Forwarding
> - IP Masquerading
> c) a number of the HOWTOs. Try...
> - Kernel-HOWTO
> - Ethernet-HOWTO
> - NET-3-HOWTO
> - PPP-HOWTO
> d) a bit of patience (it takes a little effort to understand the concepts,
> and a little more effort to set up the requisite parameters, scripts, etc.)
>
> On Thu, 06 May 1999 11:21:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Merar) wrote:
>
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am fairly new to Linux. I just got Red Hat and I am going to take a
> >Pentium 233 that I have and install Linux on it. I want to put a NIC
> >in it and hook it to my hub and make it so my Windows box dials out
> >through the Linux box.
> >
> >I also want to be able the see the Linux box from my Windows box so I
> >can telnet in and FTP to and from it.
> >
> >What do I need to make all this possible? Any help would be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Please send a copy to e-mail.
> >
> >Arthur
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> Lew Pitcher
> System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
> Toronto Dominion Bank
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
Oh, I forgot...
Get yourself a hardware modem (not a HSP/HCF/Controllerless/Winmodem
modem).
Preferrably non-PnP, preferrably non-PCI (according to recent posts in
comp.os.linux.networking and comp.os.linux.hardware).
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Britten)
Subject: Re: LT Win Modem in Linux
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:08:19 -0400
Win Modems only work with Windows(Microsoft) hence the Win part. They do
most of the work in software. I'm kinda biased and even on a MS box
won't use one of those, why waste the cycles to save 20 bucks.(but then
again I study cryptography in my spare time so my computers are usually
cranken away 24/7)
In article <7gtm9a$ke2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I have an LT Win modem. I can't get it to respond to commands in Linux.
> Can anyone tell me how to configure it for dial up PPP?
>
> -Al
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fiber optic drivers for Linux?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:57:46 GMT
Does anyone out there know of any fiber optic hardware for intel architecture
with already-written drivers for linux? I haven't seen anything good about
this in the Hardware HOWTO.
Thanks!
AED
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no pingies in very simple network
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:01:15 +0200
Hi there
On Thu, 6 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, I can ping myself and the NIC is only UTP (one of those cheap 3com
> specials).
What does a tcpdump say?
Regards,
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IPChains and NetMeeting
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:23:58 GMT
Does/Has anyone passed MS NetMeeting through an IPChains firewall
setup? I have compiled my kernel per instructions I have researched
out on the web.... but everything I have seen was for utilizing
ipfwadm not ipchains.
Does anyone have the ipmasqadm commands for port forwarding? Any help
would be greatly appreciated!!!
T. McKnight
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From: "Wembley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet taking ages before allowing login
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 20:19:38 -0500
I've had this problem as well ... long delays before telnet (from my NT4
laptop to my Linux station) will respond. /etc/hosts is fine, as are
hosts.allow and resolv.conf. There are only three machines on the network.
I can ping between any two of them, using either IP addresses or their
NetBIOS names.
Some important notes: this behavior doesn't begin until the Linux station
has been up awhile. When networking is first brought up, it responds to
telnet immediately. Further, I have found that if I attempt to telnet to
the Linux station from its own console, I get the same delay -- which
appears to indicate that name resolution isn't the problem. Again, this
doesn't happen right after boot - it's only after networking has been up for
a time (I still haven't determined how long it takes, but it's not very long
... certainly less than 20 minutes, with no activity).
Once the telnet delay begins to happen, pings still happen instantaneously
between the two machines in question, even while there is a hung telnet
process pending. If I do ps -ax on the Linux station, I see the hung telnet
process, so it's at least getting past inetd.
That's as much information as I have at the moment. If anyone has ideas,
I'd be happy to post any of my scripts and configuration files that you
think might be relevant. I'll keep working on it, and will post any
progress I make, since it appears that I'm not the only one.
-w
mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ian Lunam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> >Related question:-
> >
> >How can you handle this situation if the "from" machine is getting it's
IP
> >address from the "to" machine via dhcp?
> >
>
> In that case, then the network is most likely sufficiently large to
> warrant you running some sort of DNS service. If you make sure that all
> the addresses that you're DHCP server is giving out are catered for by
> DNS, then the slow login problem won't happen.
> --
> Mist.
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:28:31 -0400
From: Derek Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP forwarding doesn't forward!!
Do you have IP masqurading enabled, along with the forwarding? A simple
ipfwadm command can enable this, as long as ipmasq is enabled in your
kernel. A generic ipfwadm command is:
# ipfwadm -F -a accept -P all -S any/0 -D any/0 -m
But you will most likely want to modify the -S and -D arguments, along
with the -P possibly.
--
Derek Lucas
Systems Technician
OneNet Communications, Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one.net
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Dan Miller wrote:
> I have two linux machines connected via a point-to-point link...
> The two machines can ping each other successfully. One of the
> machines is connected to a LAN via Ethernet, and can
> successfully ping and otherwise access that network. However,
> the "remote" machine cannot access (even ping) the LAN...
> in fact, it can't even ping the Ethernet side of the main machine.
>
> I *have* IP forwarding turned on, on both machines.
>
> What else do I have to know about this??? Why won't our
> local server pass the packets along???
>
> Dan Miller
>
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Allsup)
Subject: Re: ipfwadm
Date: 7 May 1999 21:06:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 7 May 1999 11:26:53 -0400, Kevin Skelly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a network that allows my machines to communicate. I'm running
>RH5.1, kernel 2.0.35. The rest of the "network" is one Windows98 machine.
>I get a PPP connection from the linux gateway, and to the best of my
>knowledge all of the settings on the '98 machine are correct. I've been
>using the masquerading HOWTO as a guide. When the guide says to enter the
>commands:
>ipfwadm -F -p deny
>ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 0.0.0.0/0
>The first command gives no feedback. The second command gives me:
>ipfwadm: no ports allowed without specific protocol
>Try `ipfwadm -h' for more information.
>ipfwadm -h suppplies plenty of info, none of which I understand.
>Has anyone encoutnered this problem? The HOWTO and a couple of other
>resources I've consulted don't touch the subject, unless my sleepless eyes
>are blind....
>
Did you enable IP forwarding in the kernel - my stock RH 5.2 includes the
forwarding code, but it must be enabled; there is a switch in
/etc/sysconfig/network that must be set. The line is:
FORWARD_IPV4=yes
(You may need to reboot for this one to take effect - not sure)
good luck - those two ipfwadm lines, plus the correct line in
/etc/sysconfig/network were all it took for my homenet to work...
geoff
******************************************************************
Geoff Allsup Upper Ocean Processes Group
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA, USA
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From: "Thomas J. Clancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPC Brokers
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:21:52 GMT
Hey All,
I was wondering if there is a product out there for Linux that is similar to
Inprise's Entera product. We currently use the Entera RPC broker on an
HP-UX box, but we're considering creating a cluster of Linux boxes and
porting our server software to it. But, we need an RPC broker. Can anyone
help?
ciao,
tom clancy
poet, artist, and digital junky
http://members.tripod.com/tjclancy
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From: Wisquatuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lynx + cookies
Date: 7 May 1999 21:19:41 GMT
Ramesh V E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How to make lynx accept and process cookies? Setting
> SET_COOKIES variable in lynx.cfg doesn't seem to suffice.
Odd; that's all I had to do to make mine work. Perhaps make sure it's
set to TRUE; beyond that, I can't help but to perhaps recommend
running it as 'lynx -cookies'.
> What is the name of the file in local machine where cookies are
> saved when using lynx?
There is none. As far as I know, no version of Lynx keeps a permanent
record of cookies to date; they're all stored in the memory of your
current session, and are consequently gone once you end it.
Personally, I like this setup, but that's because I reject cookies
first and ask questions later -- I hate being tracked.
If I discover that the site I'm working on requires that I accept
certain cookies (perhaps to log on), then I go to the cookie jar
(ctrl-K), change my policy for that site from 'never accept cookies'
to 'prompt before accepting cookies', accept only those cookies
directly pertaining to what I'm doing, and then ban the domain from
sending me cookies again.
Hence, personally, I don't like having cookies lying around in a file
that I've forgotten about. But again, that's just me. Perhaps
someday, Lynx will offer a feature to store cookies between sessions,
but in the event that they do, I hope they keep this method available
as a config option. :)
Hope this helps. :)
--
- Wisquatuk (name[1..4]@netrover.com to email)
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From: "Josh Devins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @HOME Cable Service and Linux
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:19:52 GMT
Another thing to try, which is what I'm using, is hook up yer cable modem to
a PC and run a Port Mapper and NAT to let other machines on your LAN use
your cable connection. I'm using WinRoute Pro to do this and have 5 machines
on my LAN including one Linux box running my FTP, HTTP, etc. servers. I just
port mapped those ports from the machine running Win98/cable modem to the
Linux box and viola! Well, not exactly voila...more like, hocus-pocus, cross
yer fingers and pray to the networking Gods! :)
Hope that helps...
JOSH
Mike Kirk wrote in message ...
>On Fri, 7 May 1999, Scott Robson wrote:
>
>> Im curious if anyone has had any experience using linux with the @HOME
>> cable modem service (www.home.com).
>>
>> I know they do not support it, but is it possible to connect anyway and
>> do they fire wall? static or dynamic ip? Is the general performance of
>> the line good or bad?
>>
>> I'd plan to run a web server and maybe a mail server over it (for
>> completely personal use of course). Anyone have any experience with them?
>
>I'm running RH5.2 w/Rogers@Home. Static IP, but that shouldn't make a
>difference. I run my own mail server, ftp serwer, web server, and use
>IPMasquerading to share the connection with 3 other computers on an
>internal LAN. It works fine, but don't expect to get any kind of tech
>support from Rogers if something goes wrong. :)
>
>The only problem I've had is that the connection has dropped for 1-8 hours
>about 10 times in the last year. And their news server always seems to go
>offline. I run a local news proxy (leafnode) and sync groups every hour to
>get around that problem.
>
>Later,
>
> Mike
>
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From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Need DNS for sendmail or qmail?
Date: 07 May 1999 16:21:32 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I read somewhere that you need to set up DNS for qmail and sendmail. Do they
> mean DNS server or DNS client?
They mean "access to a DNS server".
> Also, I am able to use Netscape Navigator in Linux and it DOES translate, say,
> www.microsoft.com to its IP address. This means that the DNS client for my
> machine is installed, right?
Yep. You've got everything qmail/sendmail need.
--
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
Lockheed Martin Energy Research Oak Ridge National Lab Workstation Support
Gonna party like it's nineteen ninety ten...
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From: Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux < -- > Windows NT network
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:55:22 +0000
I've had slow link problems on 100MB cards, they seem very prone to noise on the
clock lines in the cable.
If you make 6 turns of cable in loop (about the width of a hand) and tape that
together it often cures the noise.
In tests on on an NT/95 network I speeded a 500k/Sec link to a 2.4MB/Sec link
just by winding a loop
Jon
Ron wrote:
> Thanks again Larry, and others who responded.
>
> This evening I powered the systems up, convinced that I had a bad cable
> (nothing else made sense).
>
> Of course, after I swapped the cables and powered everything up, it all worked
> just fine (I'm sending this from my Win box through IP Masq on Linux... seems
> much 'snappier', somehow) ;-)
>
> My only explanation is, since I didn't physically change anything, that one of
> the cables may have an intermittent connection. At this point everything's
> working, so I'll push ahead, order some spares, and be thankful for the
> current phase of the moon.
>
> thanks again, folks,
>
> Ron
>
> Larry Brasfield wrote:
>
> > A NIC-to-NIC connection with a straight
> > cable should not work. You would need
> > a cross-over cable (1/2 <-> 3/6) for that.
> >
> > [snip]
>
> > --
> > --Larry Brasfield
> > Above opinions may be mine alone.
> > (Humans may reply at unundered [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Routing and router redundancy
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:30:25 -0500
Mark wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Thanks for the suggestions but I'm a little puzzled.
|I thought the internet originally came from a distributed military network
|which would re-route information if one node was down (i.e. hit by a bomb)
and
|so remove any weak links in the information chain.
|I had assumed that this sort of system would be possible to implement in a
|LAN. I must admit that in these days of raid, hot swappable drives and
|redundant power supplies in servers that it seems odd that a single router
|failure could effectively trash your network.
Routers can have more than one route. NT can have more than one route.
Linux can have more than one route. Win95, Win3.1, printers, and etc can
only have one route.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual,
not as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
solely responsible for my words.
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