Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-13 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: >> Why it was used instead of, say, resolvconf? > > To be able to update DNS servers without restarting applications. With > resolvconf you would have to restart the applications, or the > application would need to poll /etc/resolv.conf for changes (which is > ugly and

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-13 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Luca Olivetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: > >>> Just so I can understand more clearly what you are saying, is the >>> problem you are talking about the way dnsmasq is used or the fact >>> that dnsmasq is used at all? >> >> I mean the latter (used at all). > >

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: >> Just so I can understand more clearly what you are saying, is the >> problem you are talking about the way dnsmasq is used or the fact >> that dnsmasq is used at all? > > I mean the latter (used at all). Why it was used instead of, say, resolvconf? To avoid wear

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-11 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Steve Yelvington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dnsmasq has all grown up since last time I looked at the manpage, but > won't this do what you're seeking? > > *S, --local, > --server=[/[]/[domain/]][[#][@[#]]]* >Specify IP address of upstream servers directly. Setting this flag >does

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-11 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes, this is a missing feature in N800/N810. The problem is the >> usage of dnsmasq, we can't easily add support for search domains. I >> don't remember the details anymore, but I think the only way solve >> is to change dnsmasq to something el

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-10 Thread Steve Yelvington
dnsmasq has all grown up since last time I looked at the manpage, but won't this do what you're seeking? *S, --local, --server=[/[]/[domain/]][[#][@[#]]]* Specify IP address of upstream servers directly. Setting this flag does not suppress reading of /etc/resolv.conf, use -R to do that.

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 07 December 2007 07:45:52 am Kalle Valo wrote: > "ext Urivan Saaib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> question is I'm wondering if it's possible to setup DNS suffix? > >> I don't want to type the long domain every time I try to go to a > >> box on my company's network. > > Yes, this is a m

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-07 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Urivan Saaib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> question is I'm wondering if it's possible to setup DNS suffix? I don't want >> to type the long domain every time I try to go to a box on my company's >> network. Yes, this is a missing feature in N800/N810. The problem is the usage of dnsmasq, w

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-05 Thread Urivan Saaib
> My last > question is I'm wondering if it's possible to setup DNS suffix? I don't want > to type the long domain every time I try to go to a box on my company's > network. This is a generic Linu networking question and you can accomplish that by adding your company's network domain into /etc/re

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-05 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Mike Rose wrote: > I just got my N810, and couldn't be happier with it. While everything is > pretty user friendly and obvious, I was wondering if there is a user manual > for OS2008. They are on the device. Just start PDF viewer and open the one in your language from the user guides fol

Noob Questions

2007-12-05 Thread Mike Rose
Hi All, I just got my N810, and couldn't be happier with it. While everything is pretty user friendly and obvious, I was wondering if there is a user manual for OS2008. I just want to be sure I'm using all the shortcuts and features it has to offer. Another question is once I open rdesktop to my w