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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some questions Date: 7 Aug 1995 11:55:07 +0200 Organization: Support The Free UNIX Systems Lines: 32 Message-ID: <404nts$op3@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950803025234.3328f-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.950803025234.3328f-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> wrote: > 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 The secondaries know the address of the primary and contact it every N seconds (you fix the N seconds time in the SOA RR) to see if the serial # (also set in the SOA RR) has changed; if it has, then they will download the entire zone again. > 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? The GATEWAY kernel option is not used anymore (more or less, it just says what is the default). Use the sysctl variable for that: sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding to see the value and sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 to set it. [ Cc: to Vince ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-