Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 00:11:25 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some questions Message-ID: <199508061441.AAA20812@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950806005440.7056D-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> from "-Vince-" at Aug 6, 95 01:17:38 am
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-Vince- stands accused of saying: > I bought it for $29.95, how does the DNS and Bind differ from > their TCP/IP book? Well, the DNS and Bind book talks about DNS and Bind, and the TCP/IP book covers lots of things, starting with the protocols & working up from there. From the blurb I have here, the latter doesn't cover the DNS in any great depth. > I know what you mean but isn't there anyway to configure SLiRP so > that it will default to a certain ip address for ppp/slip for each user > so that they can't be using someone else's address? You still don't understand. 8( Let's try to draw a picture so that you comprehend... OS/2 Warp, Winsock, etc installed on user's machine. Configured for some totally irrelevant address. SLiRP runs on *nix machine. Receives packet from user's machine. Makes note of originating IP address, processes packet contents and fakes the connection going out _from_the_*nix_system_. Receives packets addressed to the *nix machine relevant to operations it's performing on behalf of the user's system. Processes them, wraps the results up in a new packet addressed to the same IP address it made a note of above, and sends it to the user. User's system receives a packet addressed to it, coming (allegedly) from the 'real' remote host, and is happy. Clearer yet? > -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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