RE: Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs

2002-09-04 Thread James L. Morton
ing it...And if so, are there any workarounds anyone can think of?:) - James > -----Original Message- > From: James L. Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs >

RE: Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs

2002-09-04 Thread James L. Morton
osts file. - James > -Original Message- > From: Marcelo Ramos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs > > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:01:48 -0700 &

Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs

2002-09-04 Thread James L. Morton
Hey, I can't believe I can't figure this out:P I recently installed woody on 3 seperate boxes. On all of them, DNS seems to be taking precendence over the hosts file, despite the fact that nsswitch.conf is configured to look at hosts first. To make matters even more strange, ping gets the corr

Re: anyone using postfix in a home LAN setup?

2001-10-05 Thread James L. Morton
While I have have not ever used Postfix is that particular setup, I can't think of any reasons it wouldn't work. If you create an MX record for each host, as you would normally, but simply using internal IPs, it should work much the same as an Internet-routeable Postfix would. I'm not quite sure

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-05 Thread James L. Morton
Rino Mardo wrote: > hardware-based solutions seems ackward. you're talking about dongles or > pccard right? what about some passphrase like what gnupg does before > signing a message? This would indeed be a step in the right direction, but so far as I know (And I'm sure someone will correct me

Konqueror eats up memory and dies under KDE2.2

2001-09-03 Thread James L. Morton
This is a really odd problem. I didn't see it at bugs.debian.org so I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem. Using the Konqueror 4:2.2.0.20010822-1 package in Sid, if I start Konqueror under KDE it will eat up all available memory until it is killed by the kernel. However, if I start

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-03 Thread James L. Morton
Hey, On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 00:47, Rino Mardo wrote: > hi. i have a working knowledge of vpn and i would just like: > a) confirmation with the list regarding my knowledge of how it works You're basically correct in your assumptions:) I'd be willing to bet there aren't many people out there who