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[NMLUG] comcast customers
> I've seen the loss of DNS thing at Paseo / Wyoming where I used > to
live
> and at Indian School / Tramway where I now live.
Hi, I'm in Santa Fe not ABQ so it may be that this issue is not
affecting me (Although I'll note the upstream DNS servers mentioned are
the same ones that get pushed to me). But if it was I would probably not
know because I do run a cacheing DNS server.
I just thought I'd point out what a great piece of software the DNSmasq
package is. You don't need to learn a bunch of BIND configuration stuff.
You just turn it on your GNU/linux box that you're using as a router.
But the real advantage is it's integration with DHCP, older versions
would read the dhcp leases file from the ISC's dhcpd. And newer versions
have a lightweight integrated dhcp server built-in.
It can also read the local /etc/hosts. The gist of this is that you can
have not only functional DNS, while those saps with hardware routers
suffer, but also all of the machines on your lan will be listed in the
local DNS, so a neighbor can come by and plug in an ethernet cable or
tap into your wireless and if they put http://<HOSTNAME> in their (or
just <HOSTNAME> if they're not using IE :) and see your local webpages.
Or how about $ssh <HOSTNAME> working for every box on your lan and from
every box on your lan without having to build .ssh/config files? Very
cool. Try it you'll like it.
Also if the trouble with Comcast becomes more pervasive than this will
become a great opportunity for GNU/Linux or BSD advocacy. "Oh you don't
have internet? It works fine at my house because of my Free Software..."
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