Friday, February 25, 2000
Hack the Source, Part II
Mark has written some pages about hacking the Atalk driver in Linux. Another note not noted in the note: he reported that it doesn't work on another of his Linux systems—the major difference being a different network card. Is the Linux kernel that fragile that a difference in network causes a protocol stack to fail?
DNS Woes
Mark wrote in
today to say that reverse lookups for my domain weren't working properly.
And lo, nslookup was having a hard time finding the machine it was
running on.
At first I thought maybe it was a problem with what I was trying to do with
the latest version of bind. You see, I set things up such that I
control the reverse lookup on the 32 IP addresses
Atlantic Internet
provides me.
This is done via an interesting hack. For the appropriate
in-addr.arpa file, I have:
0 IN NS linus.slab.conman.org. 1 IN NS linus.slab.conman.org.
And so on for the 32 addresses I've been assigned. Then, for the namesever here in the Computer Room, I have:
1 IN PTR isdn.slab.conman.org. 2 IN PTR area51.slab.conman.org 3 IN PTR linus.slab.conman.org. 32 IN NS ns1a.aibusiness.net. 33 IN NS ns1a.aibusiness.net. 253 IN NS ns1a.aibusiness.net. 254 IN NS ns1a.aibusiness.net. 255 IN NS ns1a.aibusiness.net.
I've also set the nameserver to think it's a master for the
in-addr.arpa zone I appear in.
So anyway, I thought the latest version of bind wasn't liking that.
And it turned out that was true, to a degree.
There is no such TLD as .apra. Stupid typo.
Conman Laboratories monitors at Area 51
Not that I'm inviting anyone to try, but good luck trying to break into
area51.slab.conman.org. You won't get very far nor is it a very
interesting box. A Compaq 486DX/2 running at 66MHz with 20M of RAM and no
harddrive.
Yet it is on the network.
It's running a modifed Tom's Rootboot disk distribution with some network monitoring software I wrote. I just thought the name was cute.
