10/31   A friend of mine said he's loving Microsoft again because Bill G
        is starting to donate all of his money to charity. He's boycotting
        Google, Yahoo, and other mega companies because they're too big and
        too power and thinks they're all becoming the old Microsoft, whereas
        Microsoft has recently done a lot of good things like investing in
        education and charity. He just paid for a copy of Microsoft Windows
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11/05   Looking for tips on setting up DNS on a laptop which changes networks
        frequently.  I need local mail delivery, and qmail doesn't like not
        being able to resolve my local hostname.  I get DNS via dhcp for now,
        but if anyone knows of a way on unix (FreeBSD) to dynamically change
        my fqdn to <DEAD>hostname.whatever.com<DEAD> when I move to a new network,
        I'd appreciate it.  I don't have dynamic dns available.  Is there a
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11/6    What's the easiest way to resolve a name to an IP on a machine
        that doesn't have bind. Is there a shell function?
        \_ ping
        \_ nslookup?
        \_ many os's have "host", but ping is probably most universal.
        \_ The machine doesn't have BIND installed?  Or doesn't use a
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8/5     I've just setup a new firewall at home and I'm looking for a
        tool to test it out. Any recommendations?
        I'm also running a caching DNS server on the firewall and I'd
        like to setup a rule that allows the server to make queries
        and recieve responses but that blocks inbound queries. I can't
        seem to figure out how to do this though as my ipf fu is weak.
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2/15    I manage the network of a small company.  10 workstations, 10 PCs.
        They are hooked to the internet via a DSL line.  We're thinking of
        putting in a firewall. Is there a DSL modem with built-in firewall?
        Or am I better off using an el-cheapo PC as firewall? Recommendations?
        Thanks.
        \_ run free/openbsd; use ipf.  nat with ipnat, redirect: ipmasqadm.
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11/22   How many static IPs do you usually get from your DSL service?
        Do they use subnetting?  Besides host 0 and 255, all the others
        assigned IPs can be used for web server, etc.?
        \_ Default = 1, but you can order up to 4 from PacBell I believe
           (costs extra, of course). I have one but use a gateway router
           to share the connection across four computers.
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6/14    I have written a program that "pipes" port1 to port2 on a machine
        [so if you do say telnet foo 25 that can automatically send to
        to port 19, chargen].  Is there a way to grab all the unbound ports
        and map them to chargen, to deter people scanning my machine?  Will
        that be an expensive program to run?  I don't want to launch one
        version of the process for each port.  Thanks!
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