[techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Kath
Anyone know a good howto on setting up a DNS server?  Have any tips?   What I want is that workstations on my network have it specified as their DNS server.   Also so I can assign 3rd level domain names with unique IPs (so dumby.kathweb.net points to one place and foobar.kathweb.net points to

[techtalk] Install-fest How-To

2001-01-21 Thread wirren
I'm submitting this to techtalk, I suppose, because I'm asking for any advice (technical or not) on getting an install-fest going. Anyone got any good advice? Things to avoid, problems overcome... etc. ~Melanie ___ Send a cool gift wi

Re: [techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Mary. E. Mulderrig
Hi Kath: Try http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/DNS-HOWTO.html or another really good source is the O'Reilly book The definitive guide to DNS Mary.   Anyone know a good howto on setting up a DNS server?  Have any tips? What I want is that workstations on my network have it specified as their DNS serve

Re: [techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Kath
Thanks!      I think I'll have a ton of questions in a few minutes :D     - Kath   - Original Message - From: Mary. E. Mulderrig To: Kath ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 5:28 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] DNS Hi Kath: Try http://linuxdocs.org

Re: [techtalk] Install-fest How-To

2001-01-21 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:26:38AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm submitting this to techtalk, I suppose, because I'm asking for any > advice (technical or not) on getting an install-fest going. > > Anyone got any good advice? Things to avoid, problems overcome... etc. > I haven't re

[techtalk] filename special characters

2001-01-21 Thread Dennis Wheeler
Hello, After more than a year, I still consider my self new to Linux. But it always seems to be the little things that trip me up the most. For example, I've only learned recently how to remove filenames with leading dash characters, '-', in their names. Use a dot-slash in front of the name:

Re: [techtalk] filename special characters

2001-01-21 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:35:55AM -0800, Dennis Wheeler wrote: > > Hello, > > After more than a year, I still consider my self new to Linux. But it always > seems to be the little things that trip me up the most. For example, I've > only learned recently how to remove filenames with leading das

Re: [techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Kath
Still more questions :)   Ok, I have this thingy setup (I hope).   Now, how do I update my Network Solutions records to reflect that I'm running my own DNS server and to have the DNS records point to that new server?  I'm VERY confused as how to do this and which forms I fill out etc etc.   -

Re: [techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Conor Daly
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:31:43AM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Kath thought: > Anyone know a good howto on setting up a DNS server? Have any tips? > I used a whole bunch of HOWTOs for my home network including the DNS HOWTO. I set up a caching DNS with zones for my home network but,

RE: [techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Angela Nash
You need to fill out a host form to add your server as a DNS server.  Then you can change your domain by doing a change form.  Now, keep in mind that unless you have an entire net block assigned to you, you won't be able to host the reverse DNS for your site.    Also...are you going to set

Re: [techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Kath
> > - Kath the Very Confused > ^^ > You mean Kath the shortly to become even more confused!! :-) Oh yes. Jason just rained on my parade totally too :\ - Kath ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.u

RE: [techtalk] filename special characters

2001-01-21 Thread Dennis Wheeler
> > > rm "file[2].txt" > will remove the offending file. > kent > > That's true, quoting the filename will let me remove it, but in this case I don't want to remove the file, I want to rename it by removing the '[*]' from the filename. And there are a lot of them in several directories. Ve

Re: [techtalk] filename special characters

2001-01-21 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:45:20PM -0800, Dennis Wheeler wrote: > > > > > > > rm "file[2].txt" > > will remove the offending file. > > kent > > > > > > That's true, quoting the filename will let me remove it, but in this case I > don't want to remove the file, I want to rename it by removin