[KLUG Members] charter pipeline

[Jamie McCarthy]

marshall@pacdemon.org (Wesley Leonard) writes:

> Hey all.  I just signed up for charter pipeline service in
> Holland, MI.  Is anybody else using this in that area?

I have it here in Kzoo;  several friends of mine in Holland all
have it.

> I was just told by a "technical" person (who couldn't even give
> me the IP addresses of their DNS servers) that I would have to
> set up a proxy server for all my web stuff.

You'll get DNS info through DHCP.

Your web proxy is forced upon you, you don't have a choice about it.
All port-80 requests you make go through their proxy.  Which freaked
me out at first, but for the record it hasn't caused me any problems
in the last six months, even while I was debugging HTTP caching
issues on a remote server.


Just curious, would anyone with always-on broadband be interested in
a KLUG talk on configuring OpenBSD to be your firewall?  I've done
it once so I'm officially an expert (grin).  It's not really a Linux
subject except that I imagine many people want to set up more than
one Linux server on home networks and OpenBSD is the most secure
solution around...
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg