Re: DHCP nameservers

2004-11-12 Thread Eric Thornton
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 00:26 -0500, Andrew Smith wrote: I'm using my FreeBSD box as the gateway machine for my cable modem. Obviously the cable modem side has to be set as DHCP, which automaticlly sets the DNS nameservers in resolve.conf. However I am running a caching name server on the

refreshing /dev direcotry to show CD tracks

2004-10-25 Thread Eric Thornton
Can't seem to find this info in man page, or elsewhere. I'm trying to figure out how to update the /dev directory after inserting a CD to show the CD's tracks. The /dev direcotry does list the CD tracks (/dev/acd0t01...02...) but only after i try to access the disk erroneously through mount

Hurricane Izzy killed my HD, fsck can't fix

2003-09-18 Thread Eric Thornton
Ok, I was at work and forgot to kill my home fileserver running 5.1-current before i left this morning. I returned from work this afternoon in some nasty weather to find the power out. When it came back on this evening (amazing for local power company), fsck will not clean the filesystem. Even

Re: Need route add default 192.xxx after every reboot

2003-08-17 Thread thornton
Putting defaultrouter= in rc.conf is easy for specifying an upstream router. If you need to add other routes, for example to another subnet on your LAN you can specify static_routes= in rc.conf to point to a list of routes to add upon entering multiuser mode. This list, i belive follows the

Re: name all the uses for samba

2003-07-12 Thread thornton
environment. Good luck. E Thornton - Original Message - From: Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:07 AM Subject: name all the uses for samba Ok, I've gotta convince my boss to switch from windows 2000 to freebsd for all our internal needs

Re: Networking ?

2003-07-12 Thread thornton
There's a dialup firewall howto here... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/index.html if you have cable or dsl, try reading these http://www.defcon1.org/html/Networking_Articles/networking_articles.html Lots of resources are out there. I use ipfilter and ipnat

Re: dhcp option to *not* overwrite /etc/resolv.conf

2002-10-28 Thread Eric Thornton
add this to your /etc/dhclient.conf interface (outside interface) { supersede domain-name-servers (preferred DNS); } you can alternately use prepend domain-name-servers to add your DNS to the TOP of the resolv.conf list. - Original Message - From: Paulo Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED]