Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

[Eric Shubert]

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
>>>>>
>>
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
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