Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

[Eric Shubert]

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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-Eric 'shubes'