I Wanna setup Pproxy for my home herd

[DarkManX]

any suggestions? and how can I still use Mika for stats?

 

[Viztech]

DarkX-

Could you give us a little more info.
What OS for the proxy box?
Is this on a full-time internet connection?

And Yes, if you flush the proxy with Mika, Jator, Clueless, etc. your stats will be on Mika.

viz

 

[DarkManX]

windows 98 or winME, the system specs are in my SIG its the BOOKpc its gonna be on as dedicated box, connected to the net 24/7 but on 56K for now Its also ICS router for my HomeLAN. I read the readme but how do I tell the clients to use my proxy? and how can I get machines that arent in my house to use my proxy?

 

[Jator]

As long as you have a static ip, it's no problem. Just point the clients to the machine with the static ip and they will fetch and flush there. Then you tell your pProxy where to fetch & flush it's blocks. pProxies can form a chain. For example, I have my proxy connecting to Mika's to get and send it's blocks. Some people have their proxies set to my prroxy and get there blocks from me and send me there blocks, which I in turn send to mika, who in turn sends them to DNet.

If you need additiona instructions on the pProxy setup, feel free to e-mail me and I'll help you get it up and running.

 

[Russ]

Jator,

Would the same apply for an internal network address? For example, if I setup a pproxy on my Linux server, could I point my slave nodes at the IP address for one of the NIC's in the server and have the server update to dnet?

Russ, NCNE

 

[DarkManX]

by IP do u meam internet IP ip or local network?

 

[Viztech]

DarkX-

If you are going to use that proxy for clients away from the house, I would wait to implement that until you have a 24/7 connection AND hopefully a static IP. If you use the proxy for your internal herd, the pproxy will work fine.

Russ-

Yup, that's exactly what you do. Just be sure that the proxy listens on that IP and port # (you can set that up in the .ini) I can't remember if the default is to listen on all IPs.....

viz

 

[Jator]

Russ, yes. But only those machines on the lan will be able to flush to the pproxy as it is behind a proxy server or nat server (for most people, I'm not sure about your internet configuration).

Dark, if you want to run a pproxy server, that is accessible to both internal and external machines (of your lan), then youe need to have a valid IP address that anyone on the internet can have access to, not a 192.168.0.x behind some firewall that is using a proxy server to allow internet access to. Say you have a Win98 or 2k machine that uses ICS to allow a slave machine to access the internet. The slave machine cannot have a pproxy that is accessible from outside clients, only internal clients to the lan. THe 98Se or 2k machine can have a pproxy that can be used by both your lan and anyone on the internet.

Hope I haven't confused anyone besides me.

Jay

 

[Russ]

Jator,

That's exactly what I want to do. Just have all the slave nodes on the crack rack fetching and flushing from the server. So, it would just be internal. Right now, each of them connects directly to dnet's servers.

Russ, NCNE

 

[DarkManX]

so theres no way someone else can use my proxy over the net?

 

[Jator]

It depends on where ou put the pproxy. If it's on a machine connected to the net not using a NAT or Proxy server, then yes they could, otherwise no.

Jay

 

[DarkManX]

machine is connected directly, but my IP changes, I remmeber I saw a site that provides u with an http adress and software that automatically updates your IP# on there database, so there adress always points to your computer (ip)
I got the Pproxy working localy only 2 computers so far, didnt try the others, and it works, how do I know that it flushes to mika's? I put in mikas addy in one of the settings in the INI.

 

[Clueless]

If you bind the service to the external IP address, it should be accessible to both internal and external networks:

[ports]
listenaddress=<external IP>

This is what I do for mine.

If you want access from internal network only then bind it to the internal IP.

You can also bind it to the internal address and have it accessible from the outside but then you'll have to go through the trouble of setting up your firewall to let the traffic through. This makes more sense if your pproxy server is on a different machine than your firewall though, not when they are on the same one.

 

[Viztech]

Ummm You set up the .ini to which IPs you listen on.
If you have 2 NICs, internal and external, just don't listen on the external NIC IP address if you don't want to be accessed from the 'net.
You can also set it to accept connections from only certain IPs, or exclude certain IPs.

viz

 

[DarkManX]

I dont have 2 nics, only 1 for internal, since I dont yet have a broadband connection. And im not running any firewal, only ICS.

 

[Clueless]

Your Dial-up Network adapter should have its own IP address. I'm not sure if the command ipconfig is available on win98 or not but if it is, you can use it to see what the IP address for DUN is.

 

[Jator]

for win98, run Winipcfg under the run command

 

[DarkManX]

jator i know about that, but that dosent answer my quesion. :|

 

[Russ]

DarkManX,

Is this the service you were thinking of?

http://www.dynip.com

Russ, NCNE

 

[Clueless]

Oh sorry I missed your last question, DarkManX! Jator and I both used dhs.org for dynamic host service. It is free but you have to manually update your IP in the DNS host table every time it changes. I knew of a paid service where their software would automatically update but I forgot what it was. Sorry!

 

[DarkManX]

yep russ that is pretty much it, except i have seen it for free about 2 years ago, I might have been from monolith, which shut down and now are www.dhs.org