On Oct 29 1997 at 00:48, Rowan_Crowe wrote:

 SW>> Thanks for all the help and info you've given me. The freebsd 
 SW>> system is now starting to take shape...

 R> Goodo. :)

makes you feal all warm and fuzzy now, does'nt it?? (Comeon, i know you do)

 SW>> Installed and configured (except for the errors about no DNS!), now 
 SW>> I have to get my head around named and it's (messy) config file...

 R> Is it the standard named supplied with 2.2.2R? You shouldn't need to 
 R> configure anything, apart from enabling it in /etc/rc.conf. As-is 
 R> that should provide basic DNS caching services. That's unless you 
 R> want to do something funky like host your primary DNS, which is a 
 R> lot more fun.

I want to do the 'lot more fun' stuff %-)  The network setup here will have
about 4 machines on the network. os's will be win95 and os/2.
Will running the freebsd machine (486-dx4/100 with 32mb ram) as a
router/dns server/cache/email server (the last one might not be on the bsd
machine, duno yet) be to taking for it?

 SW>> Btw: I'll be getting the 24hr connection in the next two weeks.
 SW>> Things are starting to lookup for a change...

 R> Are you getting a single IP or a set of them? Is it flat rate or 
 R> volume charged?

16 ip numbers are being alocated (yay). charges are flat rate (andrew [the
guy that run's qonline] has'nt said anything about volume charges, just a
monthly fee of $170....

Stephen
Email: curl{at}qonline.com.au  curl{at}tcc-comp.com.au

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