I decided to set up bind9 today on my Gutsy server. It wasn’t too painful after I finally found some posts from someone who knew what they were doing (2 tutorials I read contained invalid configurations…).
First, you install bind:
sudo apt-get install bind9
I found this great little piece of software that does something really cool: it allows you to route your TCP traffic through a proxy using strictly ICMP packets for communication. Here’s a screenshot of it in action:
This rocks – now I have to try it on some For-Pay wireless…
Did another speed test today. So I guess I effectively have approximately a 16Mbit/1Mbit Down/Up line. Horray me!
So, the aptly named slurm is pretty awesome, making pretty graphs of my network traffic. I think I should use it more often.
