Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:30:40 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, jbarrm@panix.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp from shell, & starting X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960103210912.203B-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9601012225.AA02267@tera.com>
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On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Gary Kline wrote:
> Could you (or another network-savvy wizard) publish
> sample /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig, and /etc/network
> files? Else point me to a tutorial doc?
I don't think I qualify as a network-savvy wizard, but here are the
critical files from /etc that I use to connect with PPP. My machine
is parody (193.128.6.83) and the machine I connect to is luggage
(193.128.6.129).
I don't run a name server on my machine, but rely on luggage to do this
for me. However, this means the resolver needs some way of looking up
luggage's IP address when I'm not connected to it. This is achieved by
telling it to look in /etc/hosts first and to use BIND only if the
machine it needs isn't in there.
To do this, I have a /etc/host.conf file with the following:-
hosts
bind
and luggage's details are in /etc/hosts, along with various other
machines I might need when DNS isn't available:-
127.0.0.1 localhost
193.128.6.83 parody.tecc.co.uk
193.128.6.129 luggage.tecc.co.uk
193.128.6.145 handbag.tecc.co.uk
[handbag is the news server I use, BTW]
Finally, the resolver needs to know which domain we're in and where to
find the nameserver - /etc/resolv.conf:-
domain tecc.co.uk
nameserver 193.128.6.129
And here's the Netconfig part of /etc/sysconfig, with the comments
omitted for brevity:-
hostname="parody.tecc.co.uk"
tcp_extensions=YES
network_interfaces="lo0"
ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
#static_routes="multicast loopback"
#route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}"
#route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
defaultrouter=NO
routedflags=NO
timedflags=NO
xntpdflags="NO"
tickadjflags="-Aq"
ntpdate="NO"
rwhod=NO
sendmail_flags="-bd"
amdflags="NO"
nfs_client="NO"
nfs_server="NO"
nis_clientflags="NO"
nis_ypsetflags="NO"
nis_serverflags="NO"
yppasswddflags="NO"
namedflags="NO"
pcnfsd=NO
apache_httpd=NO
xtend=NO
dumpdev=/dev/sd0s1b
savecore=YES
kerberos_server=NO
gateway=NO
gated=NO
check_quotas=NO
accounting=NO
Note that this is for a stand-alone machine - I had to return the other
half of my network to its owner 8-( In particular, I run sendmail without
the "-q" flag and run the queue as part of my PPP connection script
instead.
James
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