Re: On-Topic: How to Boot My Network

Farley Flud wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

Most denizens of this NG are distro lackeys and thus they
don't know what the fuck is going on.
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But I am MASTER of my GNU/Linux machine and I will reveal
how I connect my standalone desktop workstation to the network
(i.e. the machine is connected to the Internet modem and to
other local machines through a router).
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First, the basic network connect script:
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#! /bin/bash
modprobe <appropiate module> && modprobe af_packet
ifconfig eno1 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net default gateway 192.168.0.1
pdnsd -d
netstat -nr
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That's it.  Just four fucking lines of bash code and
I am good to go.  (The fifth line just prints an
informative message about the connection.)
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But that's not really all.  There are other files
involved, like /etc/hosts.conf:
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order hosts, bind
multi off
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Also, /etc/resolv.conf:
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nameserver 127.0.0.1
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Yes, my nameserver is my local machine due to the
use of pdnds, which is a caching nameserver.
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But that is basically fucking it.
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How does the distro lackey boot his network?
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Most likely he depends on 1 million lines of systemd
to accomplish the above.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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Now don't you wish that you were a MASTER rather
than a LACKEY?
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

This is stock stuff that guys like vallor and I have dealt with for a couple
decades, dood.

If I really want that fun back, I can boot to FreeBSD.

--
Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"