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- From: waldvoge@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel)
- Subject: Re: help with setting up fax and DNS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.135103.24860@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:51:03 GMT
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- In article <lk9n2sINNqb5@news.bbn.com> aking@BBN.COM (Allen King) writes:
- > 1. How do you set up /dev/cua as a fax modem that can be chosen by, for
- >instance FaxReader.app? I was hoping to be able to do that manually without
- >buying NXFax, but perhaps that is the answer.
-
- Fax modems are installed with the PrintManager application. But the
- ZyXEL is not supported by the standard NeXT distribution and NXFax
- allows using the modem as a data and fax modem simultaneously.
-
- > 2. Other times I run SLIP on the line. Currently the only host
- >that is known (as a telnet/ftp host) is my SLIP0REMOTE address. How
- >does one go about configuring a system to route everything that isn't
- >local out SLIP0?
-
- You set SLIP0DEFAULT to YES (or something like that. Then everything
- which is not local to your system is routed over your SLIP. The other
- end must then propagate this routing information (how to do this
- depends on the other side).
-
- >I'd also like to setup to use the DNS? It would sure
- >be nice if I could connect to the appropriate IP nameing servers and
- >have direct internet access from home.
-
- You create '/etc/resolv.conf' with the following contents:
-
- domain bbn.com
- nameserver 128.89.2.34
- nameserver 128.89.1.199
-
- This tells the resolver that you are in domain bbn.com (then you can
- use the short host names) and that the primary name server is
- spooler1.bbn.com and the secondary (backup) is spooler2.bbn.com.
-
- -Marcel
-