[ILUG] Getting the server to dial to the net from a web browser???

[Glen Gray]

Would that not effectively kill typing a URL into the web browser to
bring up the net point of this ???

The main problem I have with the setup is the DNS server syncing with
various servers. I don't know too much about DNS and haven't looked into
it yet (I just leave the modem powered off during the day). It should be
noted that you can tell diald what times it's allowed dial out. So you
could tell it that it can only dial out when your providers charges are
on evening and weekend rates.

Glen

On 10 Apr 2001 12:46:13 +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:03:50AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Liam Bedford thought:
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:57:05AM +0100, Glen Gray came forth with:
> > > I've been using diald for years now and am pretty happy with it. I've
> > > recently setup an old P90 w/32Mb RAM as a server/gateway/firewall for
> > > practice reasons and it's working quite well. 
> > > 
> > I could be evil and suggest a *BSD userland ppp solution:
> > 
> > ppp -auto <provider>
> > 
> > but I won't.
> > 
> > Diald served me well when I used it, apart from a few funnies with it
> > dialing out because windows was doing something strange every 10 mins.
>  
> I ended up disabling dns requests as trigger which effectively kept the
> doze machine behind bars
> 
> > If you're worried about cost, keep an eye on it for the first few weeks to
> > see what it does. A 200 pound (weight) phone bill can be an eye-opener...
> 
> Yup!
>  
> > (I actually wrote 3 sh scripts to bring the connection up and down from a
> > web server... nothing spectacular, but they work...)
> 
> did similar but to be used with "Connect to Internet" and "Block Internet"
> buttons in the gnome panel.  I run a 4-times-per-day cron connect to
> harvest email also.  
> 
> diald runs on the 486 gateway/firewall and telnets the local mailserver to
> tell it the connection is up and email/news harvesting runs every 3 minutes
> while the connection is up.  On connection down, the firewall telnets the
> mailserver again to let it know and the mail harvesting stops.  I'm
> terribly impressed with myself though!
>  
> Conor
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> Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>
> 
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