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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!transfer.stratus.com!news3.near.net!yale!yale.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!penzance.econ.yale.edu!vince From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some questions Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 01:08:29 -0400 Organization: Yale University Lines: 67 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950803010103.3328P-100000-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: penzance.econ.yale.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "K.C. Furge" <kfurge@wqs1.ysi.com> In-Reply-To: <199508021233.IAA19246@wqs1.ysi.com> On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, K.C. Furge wrote: :> In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.950728182451.32115M-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> you wrote: :> : Hi everyone, :> :> : We at the Chabot Observatory & Science Center will be setting up :> : a machine to run as a server using FreeBSD on a T1 connection but have a few :> : questions that hopefully someone can answer. :> :> : 1) Since I have FreeBSD on my hard drive, how do I copy all the stuff :> : over to make a exact copy of my original drive after doing the :> : partitioning and the diskfs and mounting the drive. :> :> : 2) How do I setup ethernet using a NE2000 compatible ethernet card? :> :> Regarding 1 and 2, you're safest bet on getting everything set up correctly :> is to get the 2.0.5 distribution set and install from that. It will :> guide you through setup of you're ethernet card as well as install the OS. I already did this manually and everything seems to be working fine.. :> : 3) We will be running our own nameserver as cosc.gov but how do I do the :> : DNS entries and when we register our domain name with other nameservers :> : besides our own, do we have to update the hostnames for the cosc.gov :> : domain on our nameserver only or on all of the nameservers that are doing :> : the DNS for our domain. Also, does anyone know how we can register under :> : the gov or edu domain and like where we would get the applications? :> : Sorry for some non-FreeBSD specific questions but I'm sure some of you :> : FreeBSD users would know very much about this stuff. :> :> You can set up your site as the primary machine for your domain. Everyone :> else's DNS can do zone transfers from your site (named takes care of this). What I want to know is how do I setup a nameserver on my primary machine so all the other nameservers like the secondaries actually do zone transfers from my primary one to update like the hostnames and stuff? :> : 4) We will be providing ppp/slip on our machine... Is there anyway to start :> : ppp/slip from the shell as the server or do we have to use something like :> : slirp in order to do this since all the ppp/slip ip's will be routed :> : through the FreeBSD machine. Also, would I need to set the option :> : "GATEWAY" on in the kernel config? :> :> You must compile in the GATEWAY option if you want your slip folks to :> be able to get further that your FreeBSD box. I recommend getting the :> 'mgetty+sendfax' package. It is a getty replacement that understands :> how to communicate with and set up a modem automatically. As an added :> benefit, you also get send/receive fax capability. Here, I also use :> 'sliplogin' to automatically configure the port to talk slip. Man :> sliplogin for more information. Actually, what I mean is that they will telnet in and run slip/ppp so how would I do that? :> : Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for you help! Thanks again! Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Board of Advisors