M$ && Sending files back? [was: SOT: w2k alters mbr]

[David Kramer]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:

> At some point hitherto, David Kramer hath spake thusly:
> > That's the right way to handle outbound to microsoft.  Unfortunately, all 
> > attemtps I have made to set up DNS on my server at home have ended in 
> > cusses, pain, frustration, and ice cream.  Even just the cacheing only 
> > nameserver.  Even from RPM.  Then again, that was with MediaOne, not 
> > Speakeasy DSL.
> 
> That's curious... the caching only nameserver is very easy to set up.
> You need only install the RPMs, and enable the named service.  It
> should be that simple.

Even stranger than that is whenever I try to resolve an external hostname 
that does not exist, I get my external IP address back.  So if I make a 
typo in a URL, I get my own home page.

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