Lost ipconfig information

Are you bringing the interface up at boot time??

- Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Demland" <ddemland@cadtel.com>
To: "PLUG Discussion" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
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
>
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From Don Harrop <don@nis4u.com> Wed Sep 20 20:15:24 2000
From: Don Harrop <don@nis4u.com> (Don Harrop)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:15:24 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Changing primary and secondary DNS without X
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009201132170.19235-100000@spliff.LuftHans.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009201312220.14788-100000@tech1.nis4u.com>

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 <don@nis4u.com> Wed Sep 20 20:16:57 2000
From: Don Harrop <don@nis4u.com> (Don Harrop)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:16:57 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Changing primary and secondary DNS without X
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009201152000.19235-100000@spliff.LuftHans.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009201316330.14788-100000@tech1.nis4u.com>

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
>