alt.os.linux - Configuring DNS Address

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Configuring DNS Address

Tristan Grotvedt

2002-10-26, 4:24 am

Hi,

I have obtained an AMD 1.2Ghz Duron, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD with an old
graphic card and have installed Red Hat 7.3 as the soul OS.

In order to get Net access, i set up a 2 machine LAN with my father's
Win2k box with ADSL. The network card install went fine, and i
configured IPs like so:

The win2k box: 101.102.103.1/255.255.255.1
The red hat box: 101.102.103.2/255.255.255.1

I went through KDE 3's LISa app and everything seemed fine.

Now I can use IRC, Message clients, but when I try the web, everything
times out or something. I can get some html information some of the
time, but it doesnt work to any useable degree. Only very small emails
send correctly. Telnet works fine. I cannot browse the W2k box over
the lan (could not connect to localhost) or vice versa. I believe this
is a problem with the DNS address configuration, or lack thereof on
the red hat box. I dont know for certain though.

I did RTFM, and decided to opt for using LISA in Konsole. I have a
howto of sorts designed for Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, but when i type
"lisa" at the prompt, a totally different looking app starts. Help
please!

email me at tgrotvet@programmer.net for now, till i get this thing
working!

thanks

Aix Tom

2002-10-26, 11:24 am

tgrotvet@gmx.net (Tristan Grotvedt) wrote in
news:c780762.0210260056.50cf048@posting.google.com:

> In order to get Net access, i set up a 2 machine LAN with my father's
> Win2k box with ADSL. The network card install went fine, and i
> configured IPs like so:
>
> The win2k box: 101.102.103.1/255.255.255.1
> The red hat box: 101.102.103.2/255.255.255.1
>
> I went through KDE 3's LISa app and everything seemed fine.
>
> Now I can use IRC, Message clients, but when I try the web, everything
> times out or something. I can get some html information some of the
> time, but it doesnt work to any useable degree

You assigned you boxes IP's that might be elsewhere on the internet. So its
very unlikely that it works.

Use IP's from the private ranges 10.*.*.*/255.0.0.0 or 192.168.0.
*/255.255.255.0.

Cheers Tom

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Paul Lutus

2002-10-26, 12:24 pm

Tristan Grotvedt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have obtained an AMD 1.2Ghz Duron, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD with an old
> graphic card and have installed Red Hat 7.3 as the soul OS.
>
> In order to get Net access, i set up a 2 machine LAN with my father's
> Win2k box with ADSL. The network card install went fine, and i
> configured IPs like so:
>
> The win2k box: 101.102.103.1/255.255.255.1
> The red hat box: 101.102.103.2/255.255.255.1

Did you make up these addresses? You can't just make up addresses, you know.
Once you conect to the Internet, your use of these addresses might conflict
with a party who has them assigned. These particular addresses are not
assigned at the moment, but that may change. Also, using arbitrary
addresses may make your computer more vulnerable to attacks from the
Internet.

Use the 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 address range for local addressing. It is
a set-aside subnet that is not propagated across the Internet.

> email me at [ ... ] for now, till i get this thing
> working!

Do not ask for e-mail in Usenet postings. This is not a private consultation
service.

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David Mills

2002-10-27, 8:24 am

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 18:03:13 +0100, Paul Lutus wrote:

>> The win2k box: 101.102.103.1/255.255.255.1 The red hat box:
>> 101.102.103.2/255.255.255.1
>
> Did you make up these addresses? You can't just make up addresses, you
> know. Once you conect to the Internet, your use of these addresses might
> conflict with a party who has them assigned. These particular addresses
> are not assigned at the moment, but that may change.
They are now, they map to GN-GNS.COM., that's why the OP was having
problems.

Also, using
> arbitrary addresses may make your computer more vulnerable to attacks
> from the Internet.
>
> Use the 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 address range for local addressing. It
> is a set-aside subnet that is not propagated across the Internet.
Reading the IP-MASQ HOWTO would be a good idea as well, it's got good
background stuff on these matters.

Hope this helps

David

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Paul Lutus

2002-10-27, 11:24 am

David Mills wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 18:03:13 +0100, Paul Lutus wrote:
>
>>> The win2k box: 101.102.103.1/255.255.255.1 The red hat box:
>>> 101.102.103.2/255.255.255.1
>>
>> Did you make up these addresses? You can't just make up addresses, you
>> know. Once you conect to the Internet, your use of these addresses might
>> conflict with a party who has them assigned. These particular addresses
>> are not assigned at the moment, but that may change.

> They are now, they map to GN-GNS.COM., that's why the OP was having
> problems.

Thanks! Please tell me how you resolved this address to this hostname. I
have relied on the system command "host" for such things, but it doesn't
come up with anything for this address.

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David Mills

2002-10-27, 12:24 pm

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:11:42 +0000, Paul Lutus wrote:

> David Mills wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 18:03:13 +0100, Paul Lutus wrote:
>>
>>>> The win2k box: 101.102.103.1/255.255.255.1 The red hat box:
>>>> 101.102.103.2/255.255.255.1
>>>
>>> Did you make up these addresses? You can't just make up addresses, you
>>> know. Once you conect to the Internet, your use of these addresses
>>> might conflict with a party who has them assigned. These particular
>>> addresses are not assigned at the moment, but that may change.
>
>> They are now, they map to GN-GNS.COM., that's why the OP was having
>> problems.
>
> Thanks! Please tell me how you resolved this address to this hostname. I
> have relied on the system command "host" for such things, but it doesn't
> come up with anything for this address.
>
BIND come's with a program called dig, which dig's up DNS stuff, send it
a name, it comes back with an address, send it an address and it'll
reverse map it back to a name, I found out about it when I was
implimenting a DNS at work, it's also cool when it comes to debugging bad
internet access, cause it'll tell you streight away if a site resolves OK
or not.

Hope this helps

David

P.S: On a personnal note, I'd like to thank you for your arachnophilia
HTML editor, beats Front Page cold.
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Paul Lutus

2002-10-27, 1:24 pm

David Mills wrote:

> P.S: On a personnal note, I'd like to thank you for your arachnophilia
> HTML editor, beats Front Page cold.

Thanks! I'm glad people are willing to give Arachnophilia a chance to show
its stuff.

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