Saturday, January 1, 2005
Dim sum snack and grocery shopping at 99 Market. I conquered DHCP! After many hours of trying to get DHCP to do what I need, I made things seemingly worse this morning—the lights on the NIC no longer lit up, but after a break at the grocery store I finally get it to work. Most tutorials say to put 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.5 in as the domain name servers in dhcpd.conf, but I think those numbers are correct only if your server is also running DNS. I am not, so I instead needed the IP addresses for DNS provided by my ISP. There were a bunch of other little things but I'm tired of dealing with DHCP so I won't go into many of them here. I think Webmin modified resolve.conf to include "lookup file bind" which screwed things up, so I deleted it and rebooted. All 3 of our home computers are now secured behind pf and (for extra safety in case pf fails) the free version of ZoneAlarm as well. I also have NAT running to permit up to 4 guests to connect via ethernet cable. (Still no wireless in our house—we just haven't had a need for it.) Patrick made a yummy steamed dumplings dinner.