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From: Chooka <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Simple Networking Questions
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:57:30 +1100
Organization: Monash University
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Hi All,
I've got FreeBSD 2.1.5 up and running on a Pentium-166 with 16MB of RAM
and a FreeBSD slice of 400MB or so.
Currently, this machine is running X, Apache 1.1.3
I've configured this machine to run DNS (even though it is a standalone
- i.e. not on a LAN)
I have several questions.
1). Currently I'm running routed.
When I connect to my ISP using user ppp I can finger remote hosts
and the names are properly resolved. However, the connection times
out. However, I can finger machines on my ISP's network without a
problem. Why is this so ?
2). If I establish a permanant IP connection through an ISP I would be
allocated a static IP address. Given that I'm running a single
machine is it safe to run a primary DNS and Apache on my machine,
whilst someone else (my ISP?) runs a secondary ?
3). With regard to the above.
Do I still need to run routed if no one is using my mcahine.
(i.e. I'm only receiving incoming TCP/IP data and am not creating
any routes myself). Does Apache (or any WWW server) generate
routing information (dynamically) ?
4). Currently after booting up a netstat -ars reports that there are 32
or so "destination addresses found unreachable". Using route to
monitor table modifications I've traced these down to the requests
generated from cache file used by my DNS. Hence there are no routes
to the root name servers in my routing table. How can I avoid this
problem ?
5). Lastly, when I'm running user ppp I can't telnet to port 3000
to check the ppp connection. Any ideas why ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
David M. Henshaw
dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au