[plug] Questions about a dialup server

[Michael Hunt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Kent Ian
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 2:16 PM
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: re: [plug] Questions about a dialup server
>
>
> Michael Hunt wrote:
>
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> >packages) I often come up with an error on the machine that says
> something
> >along the lines of IPCACHE something or other. DNS lookup failed. As the
> >machine is not always permanently connected to the web I can
> understand why
> >this happened. (The box does act as a local DNS and this works perfectly
> >fine). The same message appears in the squid.log file. On looking through
> >the squid.conf file I found a reference to a DNS test that occurs on
> >start-up that can be disabled using a -D parameter. I tried this
> in various
>
> You need to add -D to the squid startup.
> Look at the startup script (probably /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid) and
> work ou where
> the parameters are read from and add the -D to disable DNS test
> at startup.
>
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Works like a charm now (well doesn't spit out the error messages and die on
me like it used to). However I seem to have got a lot of errors trying to
retrieve pages etc especially for dynamic sites lie netaddress (free mail
like hotmail). I think that was related to my entry in the squid,conf file
about inside firewall. Once I had uncommented it and changed the entry for
my domain It seemed to work a lot better, There where some problems with
sites that I had already visited so I am going to clear my cache and see
what happens. Any suggestions for running squid behind a firewall,
especially considering that the pages can only be downloaded from a parent
proxy and not directly from the source ?

> >2. I want to be able to get the machine to dial into my ISP on demand. I
> >heard that diald can do this but there is some problems with it on 2.0
> >kernels (or at least someone told me they had that problem). Does anyone
> >know of another utility that can be used to do this ? I don't mind if the
>
> Seems to work fine on several of the RH 2.0.3x kernels I have used.

Which version of diald did you use. I downloaded one (gcc or libc I cant
remember) and it came up with all sorts of compile errors.

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On another note how does one set-up IP-Masquerading. I followed the
instructions in the mini howto, compiled my Kernel add the appropriates
lines to the rc files and it doesn't work. I also noticed the IP forwarding
comes up as being off on bootup. Is this supposed to be right (doesn't make
sense to me). If not how am I supposed to turn it on/get IP Masquerading
working. Anyone's experience with setting this up on a RedHat 5.2 box from
scratch would be helpful (step by step would be great).

Thanks in advance.
Michael Hunt