RE: How to configure a Home network?

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Chris Morton wrote:

> That's what I thought.  I'm not running DNS on my home network and it
> seems to run fine, with one exception:
> 
> When I telnet from my Win98 machine (which has a modem) to the Linux
> server, the 98 machine wants to dial my ISP to reach it via the
> internet.  If I cancel the dialout, the telnet session proceeds normally
> over my LAN.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?

This is due to,I believe, identd trying to authenticate the user or a
reverse lookup being performed by the linux box.  I run a DNS server for
this reason. I include part of the ip subnet in PTR resource records to
account for this issue.
 
> I'm using 10.x.x.x as my IP address series.  Should it be 192.168.x.x
> instead?


IMO, one private IP address space is as good as another.  To get the
skinny, read the RFC for this.  Sorry, for the life of I can never
remember it's number.  Use your trusty search engine  for this task.


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