It's got to be a hardened system, so once it's installed with the basics I'll be using bastille on it to "harden" it off, as it's going to be on the dirty side of the firewalls for improved speed on the DNS, currently the DNS is inside the firewall at the end of a 128k pipe. We had a 2Mb pipe put in some time ago and have been assigned IP addresses through the same provider, but, would you believe that the provider has made a huge f**k-up and has given us 2 ranges (one for 128k one for 2Mb) and the systems are on different networks that have very poor peerage!!

So we've ended up having to migrate what was on the 128, put it onto the 2Mb, which although doesn't sound too bad, but when the licences for the apps are hard coded it's turned out to be a pain in the butt.

Anyway, the other reason for building a new DNS, is the old one doesn't have much in the way of redundany, whereas the new one will have in the form of RAID5, redundant PSU's and hopfully (if somone can help me out) failover on the NIC's (any ideas/offers, can provide some ftp space in return for help)..

Simon

----- Original Message ----- From: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk To: Simon Parkes simon.parkes@ukonline.co.uk Cc: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [Alug] RH Kernel Upgrade problems...

"Simon Parkes" simon.parkes@ukonline.co.uk writes:

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I am considering just going straight for the 2.4 kernel, maybe that

would be

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a bit less painful?

Depends if you need things from 2.4 or if you need things to work (I hear IR is broken in 2.4 -- fixed yet?)

wbh:

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So, recompile that kernel image with less in/more as modules/ using

"make

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bzImage" to get better compression.

I think this is the key advice.

MJR