[ale] Comcast problems?

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Fri Mar 2 10:40:17 EST 2007


On Friday 02 March 2007 09:46:08 am Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Paul, you use SUSE right?
10.2 on my desktop

>
> If so set it up via YAST. ?Very easy and make it a caching server only.
>
under Control Center-Network Services is the DNS and Hostname tab.
When I click on that I get a window that shows:
Initializing Network Configuration. It shows some check marks and items like:
detect network devices, read driver info, read device config....
and a window in front of it shows:
The resolver configuration file ( /etc/resolv.conf) has been temporarilty 
modified by dhcpd. You have 2 options:
1. Modify the current config
2. press ACCEPT and continue editing other (nonresolver) data.
I have no ide what the "current config" is.
when I click ACCEPT I go to a screen that shows Hostname, Domain Name, and 2 
1.check boxes-Change Hostname Via DHCP
2.Write hostname to /etc/hosts
with those boxes checked it greys out the boxes below, where you would put DNS 
IPs.


I'm really not sure what it is I need checked or configured.. there is no 
caching entry, or am I missing something..

> Then configure your network to request dns from yourself. ?It you have
> multiple boxes and one of them tends to be on all the time make it
> your dns caching server.
>
> FYI: Last I tried dns fallback is really slow so only have a machine
> serve dns to other machines if it truly is available for them to use.



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Paul Cartwright
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