Home Network Problem

[Ray Strode]

> I finally gave up and did the unthinkable...  I reinstalled.  
> When I did that, I found two problems...  One was easy, 
> I needed to run named.....
I'm not completely sure of your setup, but do you really 
need bind running? Is this box just going to be a masq 
gateway? If so then maybe you should consider just using 
your ISPs DNS.  One less hole for exploits to get through.

> I had rebuilt a few kernels and in the process I forgot to 
> change the 'EXTERNALNAME' variable in the top level 
> Makefile.  
EXTERNALNAME?  This is a linux kernel your talking about
right?  I'm not really sure about that.  I'm kinda busy right now,
so I can't check for sure, but I don't think that's in the Makefile.
Maybe EXTRAVERSION?  Otherwise I dunno.

> As you can guess, pretty soon all sorts of things 
> weren't working right....  
Even if you don't change the name, it should just overwrite in 
previous kernel installs, so I'm not really sure what sort of things 
wouldn't work?

> The good news is that I learned that I shouldn't do that. ;-).
Do what?

Sorry for being so inquisitive, but I haven't really been following the
thread very carefully.  Have you gotten everything working that you
needed to?  If so, just disregard this whole email.

--Ray