Are you bringing the interface up at boot time?? - Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Demland" To: "PLUG Discussion" Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 1:12 PM Subject: Lost ipconfig information > > I am working with Storm Linux putting together a firewall for our T1. The > box has to NICs in it but the Storm install would only configure one of the > NICs. I use ipconfig to configure the second card, when I reboot and run > ipconfig again the second card was missing. What do I have to do to save the > information after using ipconfig to configure the second card? > > Thank You, > > David Demland > Qa/Testing Manager > CADTEL Systems, Inc. > 11201 N. Tatum Ste. 200 > Phoenix, AZ 85028 > (602) 953-4888 > Fax: (602) 953-4833 > ddemland@cadtel.com > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss From Don Harrop Wed Sep 20 20:15:24 2000 From: Don Harrop (Don Harrop) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:15:24 -0700 (MST) Subject: Changing primary and secondary DNS without X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'm not sure if I misunderstood or if der.hans misunderstood. Are you talking about DNS server search order " /etc/resolv.conf" or the bind (DNS) server? Don On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, der.hans wrote: > Am 20. Sep, 2000 schwäzte David Demland so: > > > > > I am installing a firewall here at work. I am using Storm Linux. I have > > never use a Debian version of Linux before but all has seemed to go well > > thus far. I do not have X Windows on this box because it is a firewall. I > > have only used X to check and change the primary and secondary DNS servers. > > What file is this information stored in if I am not using X? > > /etc/bind/named.conf on debian, /etc/named.conf for most everything > else. This is presuming you're running bind 8.x. For bind 4.x it was > /etc/named.boot or some such. > > See /usr/sbin/named-bootconf if you're moving from bind 4.x to bind 8.x. > > ciao, > > der.hans > From Don Harrop Wed Sep 20 20:16:57 2000 From: Don Harrop (Don Harrop) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:16:57 -0700 (MST) Subject: Changing primary and secondary DNS without X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Nevermind. :-) On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, der.hans wrote: > Am 20. Sep, 2000 schwäzte sinck@ugive.com so: > > > > > /etc/resolv.conf > > > > Format prolly documented someplace. :-) > > in the resolv.conf man page :). You shouldn't have that installed on the > firewall and I don't know that others dists have it. An old SuSE and the > new Mandrake I have here don't :(. > > search firstdomain.com seconddomain.edu > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 192.168.5.13 > > search will search the listed domains. You can use "domain > somedomain.com" if you're only gonna have one, but I don't think it's a > real performance hit, so suggest using search and forgetting about domain > :). > > nameserver expects the IP address of a dns server. Normally if you're > running dns on the box you want 127.0.0.1 as the first nameserver listed. > For a firewall you might want it to actually run off an internal > nameserver even though it's running named for external queries ( that's > how I'm setup at home :). > > You can have multiple nameservers listed as I've shown above. > > ciao, > > der.hans >