[101888] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Home networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Lenzer)
Mon Nov 30 08:45:39 1998
From: "George Lenzer" <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>, <brichardson@lineone.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:42:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: <01BE1C35.201760C0.brichardson@lineone.net>
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Hi Bruce,
I've got a home network myself. (Been using Linux since May 98 now.)
Assign yourself a class C address in the private address range:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
192.168.1.1 alpha alpha.brucenet.net
192.168.1.2 beta beta.brucenet.net
Anything in the 192.168.1.1-255 range is legit for private network use
AFAIK. I have been using this addressing scheme at home for some time. It
works well with IP Masq.
HTH,
G. Lenzer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:brichardson@lineone.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 2:43 AM
> To: 'redhat-list@redhat.com'
> Subject: Home networking
>
>
> I decided to call my little home-linux-network bruce.net (OK, I only have
> one PC at the moment but I'm about to connect an old 486). I quickly
> discovered that messing with hostnames disabled things like lpd and
> sendmail (sendmail hung on startup so I had to log in single user to put
> things right). So right now I have the following settings
>
> in /etc/HOSTNAME
> ----------------------
> alpha.bruce.net
> ----------------------
>
> in /etc/hosts
> ----------------------
> 127.0.0.1 alpha.bruce.net alpha.bruce.net
> ----------------------
>
> Now, I know this is not exactly right (the nickname in hosts
> should just be
> alpha?) but is any software going to puke because it can't find a
> 'localhost'? Should I just bite the bullet, assign myself a class A
> address and put in IP masquerading? If I do that, should hosts read as
> follows?
>
> -----------------------
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> <classA_IP> alpha.bruce.net alpha
> -----------------------
>
> Or should it be localhost.bruce.net?
>
> I have 'search lineone.net' for my lSP in /etc/resolv.conf:
> should I put in
> a 'domain' line and should that be 'bruce.net' or 'lineone.net'?
>
> Before anyone points out that my current set-up will cause problems for
> sendmail with bounced e-mails etc, I know. I haven't set up e-mail yet,
> I'm doing things one step at a time so that I know what I'm doing
>
>
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