For various reasons, I'm switching to RedHat from FreeBSD for most of my development work, and I've come across a couple of oddities that I'd appreciate some help with. RTFM is fine, as long as you tell me *which* FM.
1) My network at home consists of 4 machines: a FreeBSD box on my desk that actually connects to the internet via a dialup line and handles routing and NAT; a RedHat (8.0) box on my desk; a Windows ME box in the next room for games/my daughter, and a laptop. The laptop formerly ran FreeBSD, but I just replaced it with RedHat 8. All machines can communicate just fine, except for the FreeBSD box and the laptop. The maxmimum transfer speed between the 2 of them seems to be about 14K/sec, and I've no idea why. scp and ftp both give the same results. I can't find any error messages on either machine. If I want to move a large file from the FreeBSD box to the laptop (or vice versa) I have to send it to either the other RedHat box or the 'doze box first. Any ideas? 2) When I use ssh from either RedHat machine, it always does a DNS lookup on the machine name. If I happen to be downloading a file that means it's going to take quite some time before I get connected. I have 'order hosts,bind' in /etc/host.conf and 'hosts: files dns' in /etc/nsswitch.conf. If I change the line in nsswitch.conf to 'hosts: files' ssh makes the connection instantly, but then of course I can't resolve any names not in my hosts file. 3) I've noticed that there are quite a few programs linked with the kerberos libraries. I don't use kerberos now and don't expect to ever use it. Is there such a thing as a RedHat distribution that doesn't include kerberos? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Richard Kuhns [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
