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From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Some questions
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 02:58:14 -0400
Organization: Yale University
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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) 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.  Specifically, how do we setup a nameserver under 
FreeBSD and also does the secondary nameservers just get it's updates from
the primary nameserver?  Sorry for some non-FreeBSD specific questions but 
I'm sure some of you FreeBSD users would know very much about this stuff.

2) 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?

	Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance for you help!

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