Some simple questions.
Nick Urbanik
nicku at nicku.org
Wed Jun 13 21:08:57 UTC 2007
On 13/06/07 13:40 -0600, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>1) Is there someplace else that the hostname is stored?
> The very first line in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is
> HOSTNAME=`'bin/hostname`
> so it has figured it out by that time.
In /etc/sysconfig/network have a line
HOSTNAME=.....
>Initially I was not able to get out to net from the client.
>I did a
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>and I can now get out USING IP ADDRESSES.
>
>2) I seem to remember that there is some preferred place to put this
> echo command, but cant remember where. I can put it anywhere,
> but would like it where it belongs (and where I can find it
> later).
In /etc/sysctl.conf have a line
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
>3) From the outside I can ping the client with either name or IP address.
> From the client, I can ping, and do ssh, and whatever with IP addresses,
> I can't do them with host names. The /etc/resolv.conf is the same as on
> my other machines, but nslookup just hangs.
>
> Im confused on this one, any thoughts? Whats missing?
Dunno. What does dig www.google.com (or any known address) say?
Is your firewall blocking outgoing dns? Have you checked output of:
# iptables -L -n
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