Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

[Eric Shubert]

VMware Server, CentOS 5.

Stephen wrote:
> Running as a vm, what platform do you run it on? (virtualbox, xen, vmware)
> 
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>> IPCop has worked well for me for a number of years. I started with an
>> old 333MH celeron pc, added a couple nics, and was good to go. You
>> wouldn't need that much power though. A plain ol' Pentium (win95 box)
>> would do nicely. I run IPCop as a VM these days. I have my wireless
>> router (wrt54G stock) attached to the orange (dmz) network, so wireless
>> is isolated from my lan.
>>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> uptime etc... and the extra features is why im thinking about it.
>>> however my gateway does dyndns, but im still wnating to replace it
>>> with a real firewall and some of those features. but i dont have a
>>> graceful replacement of the wireless part of it yet. so im kind of
>>> stuck with it. (and i dont mind replacing it with tomato/DDwrt but i
>>> want a backup plan first in case i brick it)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>>>> It seems to me that the gateway is a more logical place to put dhcp,
>>>> thinking of your gateway as a "network server" (which provides network
>>>> services).
>>>>
>>>> To be honest though, I can't think of a reason why it would really
>>>> matter one way or another.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>> This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now...
>>>>>
>>>>> More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on
>>>>> my server than locally.
>>>>>
>>>>> Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just
>>>>>> need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when
>>>>>> you use yum to install it). You then need to have:
>>>>>> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>>>>>> first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is
>>>>>> directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets
>>>>>> your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a
>>>>>> router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your
>>>>>> computer isn't sitting on a public address.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't
>>>>>> really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brian Cluff wrote:
>>>>>>> I've always found that cox's DNS server have been less that desirable.
>>>>>>> I was actually surprised to find that I was using their dns at all.
>>>>>>> I've usually setup my own, to get around their DNS problems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now with cox hijacking all the typos, I would recommend more than ever
>>>>>>> that people setup their own DNS servers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 02/28/2010 07:53 AM, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
>>>>>>>> Yes, I am using cox but I guess the bigger question is WHY
>>>>>>>> is cox reporting an incorrect IP for the plug web server?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>> From: Brian Cluff<brian at snaptek.com>
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM
>>>>>>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the
>>>>>>>>> wrong address for the plug server.  If you simply remove that nameserver
>>>>>>>> >from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again.
>>>>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>>>>
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