Home Network Problem

[Robert Buecker]

> > 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.

Especially with this lion crap running around

> > 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.
Not much to follow!  Mostly we speak spanish in mockery of Deven's
cryptography usage.

>
> --Ray
>
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