Brian's Stupid questions of the day

[Brian Kelsay]

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Kelsay 
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:21 AM
To: 'bjdensmr at epsi.net'
Subject: RE: Brian's Stupid questions of the day

In your Hosts file you need all the names of the computers in your internal
network.  This replaces DNS and works like the LMHosts file that Windows 95
uses for Peer-to-peer networking.  When one system doesn't find the computer
name internally it goes out to the internet to whatever IP you gave it for
DNS.  In your Hosts file you could also put the IP address of websites you
visit frequently like Slashdot or yahoo.  This is almost like a caching DNS
server or proxy server where it holds a copy of the last 50-100 websites
viewed to save bandwidth and time.  What you save by putting yahoo's IP
address in your Hosts file is the reverse lookup at a DNS server.  Probably
way too much info but maybe it will help someone.

-----Original Message-----
From: bjdensmr at epsi.net [mailto:bjdensmr at epsi.net]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:33 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Brian's Stupid questions of the day

Does anybody know what the difference is between the Journaling File System
(jfs) and the Reiser File System; and which one I should use?

Also I have the following setup:
   1 pc which is acting as gateway and personal desktop - connected via 56k
line
   2 pcs which are gateway clients
   1 pc which is a Web/e-mail/ftp server.

>From the webserver I can ping the gateway, but the gateway cannot ping the
webserver. The hosts entry for the webserver is like this

172.200.20.129		www.amason.net

what is wrong with the entry?

should it be

172.200.20.129		pc1.www.amason.net	www.amason.net

or what? Also, when I try to ping the other machine using the name or
nickname
it goes out to the internet, and then fails to find them, but punching in
the ip
address works fine!?

Thanks in advance,
Brian