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Re: N800 & DNS problems

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Originally Posted by bill-linux (Post 80477)

5) If you don't plan to change your root password then remove the ssh server at least.

a better option is to generate ssh keys (see man ssh-keygen on a desktop pc running linux, there's an analogous utility with putty for windows), drop the public key in /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys, test that everything is working then edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to disable root login and password authentication.
The you can login on the tablet as "user" with no password and nobody can try to login as root.

Re: N800 & DNS problems

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Originally Posted by luca (Post 79039)

the n800 uses dnsmasq for name resolution...take a look at /etc/dnsmasq.conf

Thank you for that pointer.

I was having an issue with openvpn failing to pick up DNS servers for the private network and your mention of dnsmasq led me to read the man page for it. I found just the ability I need: in /etc/dnsmasq.conf I added 'server' directives to explicitly specify a DNS server for my private domain, e.g.

server=/my.private.domain/10.77.1.1

Simon.