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Newer page: version 6 Last edited on Thursday, June 5, 2003 9:52:05 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 5 Last edited on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:08:20 pm by MattBrown Revert
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 You are now properly on the !MetaNet. You should now be able to visit http://www.tla/ 
  
 !Other clients on your network 
  
-Make sure any clients on your network that you want to resolve !MetaNett addresses have the address of your nameserver as the first nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf, or their native DNS configuration. You can put your [ISP]'s nameserver after it as a precaution, if you like. 
+Make sure any clients on your network that you want to resolve !MetaNet addresses have the address of your nameserver as the first nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf, or their native DNS configuration. You can put your [ISP]'s nameserver after it as a precaution, if you like. 
  
-!Root CA 
+!!Firewalling  
+see FirewallNotes and PerrysFirewallingScript. Although you should be able to mostly trust other people on the metanet, you should at the very least do some basic firewalling.  
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+For example, samba/nmbd does broadcasts that will go across the metanet. You can either block traffic to and from the metanet on ports 137, 138 and 139 (both [TCP] and [UDP]) or you can add the following in smb.conf's global section:  
+ bind interfaces only = yes  
+ interfaces = 10.x.y./24  
+  
+! !Root CA 
 The !MetaNet has a CertificateAuthority that it uses for signing SSL websites and potentially other cool stuff. To add this "root CA" to your browser, visit http://www.meta.net.nz/install-cert.html 
  
 Now, go to MetaNetResources to see what you can do with your new internetwork. 
  
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 [1] The reason is if you use a forwarder, then all queries get forwarded to the other server and it won't be able to resolve metanet names and addresses.