Douglas & others, dt> Does it[/etc/hosts] work?
Yes. No problems evident. dt> Read the debian-reference. Yes, http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html and http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReference/Network explain things not in "man hosts". In particular, I was on the wrong track about the complaint from Xfce[GNOME]. resolvconf doesn't settle it. In addition to the first line "127.0.0.1 ..." I need "127.0.1.1 joule.petershouse.invalid joule". Actually the html document doesn't mention the <domain_name> but the wiki does. So the wiki document is the best authority here. dt> Do you have any firewall doing network address translation? If you want fire-and-forget just use ipmasq, if you want to really understand it use shorewall after reading shorewall-doc. ipmasq has been running on joule for a few years and even on the 486 predecessor. shorewall will run first on one of two almost identical machines. If I make a real snarl on the shorewall machine, the sister machine can substitute until the problem is solved. dt> What about supplying DNS services to your network? The easiest is to install dnsmasq. The subordinate systems refer to upstream dns servers with static addresses. dnsmasq works on another linux router which I just gave to a brother. dt> I don't know what this line [Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.yi.org/] is for. The message "signature". OK, I've demarcated it better. Thanks, ... Peter E. ========Epilogue or Signature======== Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
