Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

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@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@snaptek.com>
>>>> Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM
>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list<plug-discuss@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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