Date: Sun, 31 Oct 99 15:55:38 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #31 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 31 Oct 99 Volume 12 : Issue 31 Today's Topics: DNS w/IP forwarding DNS w/IP forwarding (from: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #30) old hardware PPP and IP masquerading Simple example of PPP on Solaris 2.6 or 7? SS20: two ethernet interfaces? Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #30 various from Digest V12 #29 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 07:13:43 -0700 From: David Herron Subject: DNS w/IP forwarding To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com At 05:15 PM 10/16/99 -0500, The Moderator wrote: >Hello All - > >I recently acquired a Sun Sparc2; ... I have DSL, and have it set up >so that my linux machine does ip forwarding. (It has two NICs, etc.) The >Sun plugs into the hub, etc, and has access to the internet. I issue the >route add command, and I'm all set. The Linux box forwards the sun's >packets out, no problem. My difficulty is that the Sun will not to a DNS >lookup. I can ping IPs all day, but not a name. I've got the resolv.conf >file in /etc, but it does not work. I'm running SunOS 4.1.4. > >My resolv.conf looks like this > >search dnvr.uswest.net uswest.net >nameserver 206.196.128.1 >nameserver 204.147.80.5 > >What do I need to do to get this to work? > >Thanks > >jeff > >jhauser1@uswest.net What I've been doing in two different circumstances (in one case, a FreeBSD system doing dialup with a modem-based ISP, and now @Home using a Linux system) is to configure a nameserver on the gateway system. The resolv.conf on the systems on the internal network specify the IP on the local net for the gateway system. Specifically: gw has IP's 24.xx.xx.xx (@Home address) and 10.0.0.3 Then resolv.conf lists "nameserver 10.0.0.3". David - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 02:06:17 -0400 (EDT) From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) Subject: DNS w/IP forwarding (from: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #30) To: Huge > From: Huge > > AFAIK, SunOS 4.1.4 doesn't support DNS, except through NIS. 4.1.3 > certainly didn't. If you want to use DNS directly, and I would strongly > recommend that you do, you need to replace libc with one containing > appropriate resolver libraries. Indeed. > When I ran 4.1.3 I used a package called "resolv+" which works well. I would strongly advise using the resolver in BIND-4.9.7, or if possible the resolver in the most recent BIND-8 release. Though much of the work I did on getting BIND-4's resolver to integrate cleanly into SunOS-4 is included in the official BIND-4.9.7 release, there were some issues that didn't get smoothed out as nicely as I'd have liked. If you have any trouble with the official distribution I can provide you a copy of my release which has been well tested on SunOS-4.1.4 (and SunOS-4.1.1U1/sun3! ;-). Personally though I'd very very strongly recommend upgrading your entire system to NetBSD (or OpenBSD). You can continue to run most SunOS software under the emulation environment (SunWindows stuff doesn't work, I don't think, but everything else should -- eg. I run Netscape). I would guess that if you require DNS then you're on the Internet, and it really is not safe to run SunOS-4 on the open Internet any more, even with all of Sun's "recommended" security patches installed. You'll also find that NetBSD has much more modern networking utilities. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:31:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Becki Kain Subject: old hardware To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com is a 670 and/or an IPX worth anything? thanks beckers -- furph, Inc. WWW/Unix/Windows Solutions 734-513-7763 (voice) info@furph.com http://www.furph.com 734-513-7759 (FAX) - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:14:31 -0400 From: Matthew Plante Subject: PPP and IP masquerading To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello, I would like to setup my solaris 7 x86 computer to act as PPP client and IP masquerader. I have a small personal network, and I would like the other computers to have access to the internet through this computer. Is it possible to do this with solaris, or should I use linux? I've tried using linux, but its iterating me, telling me that PPP support isn't compiled into to kernel, when it actually is :-). thanks, Matthew Plante Technician matt@aticomputers.com Applied Technologies, Inc. www.ATIcomputers.com - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:12:36 -0400 From: Ray Pfaff Subject: Simple example of PPP on Solaris 2.6 or 7? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I've been trying to compile ppp with no joy under Solaris 7 on a Sun IPC. For the time being, I'd like to use the native Sun PPP support to at least get *something* up and running. Can someone provide a link or example of how to set up the files for a simple dial out connection, requiring name and password, where the IP is provided by the ISP? - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 15:23:09 -0700 From: Jan Steinman Subject: SS20: two ethernet interfaces? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I just got a used SparcStation 20. It has both a 10-base-T and a AUI ethernet interface connectors, and doing "test network" at the ok prompt shows two different ethernet tests. However, I just installed Solaris 7, and it only configures one: le0. If there were two separate ports, I would have expected an "le1" or similar to show up configured. So my question is: are there actually two separate ethernet ports, or do all the connectors simply connect to the same port? Can I use this machine as a router as-is, or would I have to add another ethernet card? : Jan Steinman : Bytesmiths - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:56:59 -0400 From: Mauricio Tavares Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #30 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com At 04:51 PM 10/23/99 EST, you wrote: > >From: Huge >Subject: DNS w/IP forwarding >To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > >Jeffrey Hauser writes; > >> I've got the resolv.conf >> file in /etc, but it does not work. I'm running SunOS 4.1.4. > >AFAIK, SunOS 4.1.4 doesn't support DNS, except through NIS. 4.1.3 >certainly didn't. If you want to use DNS directly, and I would strongly >recommend that you do, you need to replace libc with one containing >appropriate resolver libraries. > >When I ran 4.1.3 I used a package called "resolv+" which works well. > >Regards, > >Hugh. > I second Hugh's suggestion. I udes resolv+ in 4.1.4 before and it worked pretty happy - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:11:37 -0400 From: adh@an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker) Subject: various from Digest V12 #29 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com "Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:03:47 -0600 "From: Jeffrey Hauser "Subject: DNS w/IP forwarding " [] "packets out, no problem. My difficulty is that the Sun will not to a DNS "lookup. I can ping IPs all day, but not a name. I've got the resolv.conf "file in /etc, but it does not work. I'm running SunOS 4.1.4. stock sunos 4 won't do dns lookups until -after- yp lookups. two solutions: 1. set yp up, with only a simple hosts map. 2. there's a well-known hack which bypasses the yp requirement. i don't remember the details; haven't run sunos 4 for some years now... "Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:08:27 -0400 "From: "Ken Hansen" "Subject: Sparc LX video problems... " "John, " I wonder if the 2 G drive might be putting too much of a load "on the PS - have you tried removing the drive from the box and unlikely -- there are -very- few 2G drives that draw more than the original lx sun0424 and sun1.0 drives, and most draw considerably -less-. the drive could be failing, as someone else mentioned. __________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay Rubber on the wheel is faster than internet rambler rubber on the heel - Lightnin' adh@an.bradford.ma.us Hopkins, Big Black Cadillac Blues - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************