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>5. About This Book</A
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>When Olaf joined the Linux Documentation Project in 1992, he wrote two
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small chapters on UUCP and <B
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contribute to the System Administrator's Guide. Development of TCP/IP
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networking was just beginning, and when those “small chapters”
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started to grow, he wondered aloud whether it would be nice to have a
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Networking Guide. “Great!” everyone said. “Go for it!”
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So he went for it and wrote the first version of the Networking Guide, which
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was released in September 1993.</P
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> Olaf continued
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work on the Networking Guide and eventually produced a much enhanced
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version of the guide. Vince Skahan contributed the original
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<B
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> mail chapter, which was completely
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replaced in this edition because of a new interface to the
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> configuration.</P
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>The version of the guide that you are reading now is a revision and
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update prompted by O'Reilly & Associates and undertaken by Terry
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Dawson.<A
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Terry has been an amateur radio operator for over 20 years and has
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worked in the telecommunications industry for over 15 of those. He was
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co-author of the original NET-FAQ, and has since authored and
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maintained various networking-related HOWTO documents. Terry has
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always been an enthusiastic supporter of the Network Administrators
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Guide project, and added a few new chapters to this version describing
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features of Linux networking that have been developed since the first
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edition, plus a bunch of changes to bring the rest of the book up to
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date.</P
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> The <B
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Philip Hazel,<A
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who is a lead developer and maintainer of the package.</P
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>The book is organized roughly along the sequence of steps you have to
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take to configure your system for networking. It starts by discussing
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basic concepts of networks, and TCP/IP-based networks in particular.
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It then slowly works its way up from configuring TCP/IP at the device
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level to firewall, accounting, and masquerade configuration, to the
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setup of common applications such as <B
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friends, the Network File System, and the Network Information
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System. This is followed by a chapter on how to set up your machine as
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a UUCP node. Most of the remaining sections is dedicated to two major
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applications that run on top of TCP/IP and UUCP: electronic mail and
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news. A special chapter has been devoted to the IPX protocol and the
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NCP filesystem, because these are used in many corporate environments
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where Linux is finding a home.</P
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>The email part features an introduction to the more intimate parts of
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mail transport and routing, and the myriad of addressing schemes you
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may be confronted with. It describes the configuration and management
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of <B
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>, a mail transport agent ideal for use in most
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situations not requiring UUCP, and <B
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>sendmail</B
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>, which is for
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people who have to do more complicated routing involving UUCP.</P
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>The news part gives you an overview of how Usenet news works. It covers
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INN and C News, the two most widely used news transport software packages
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at the moment, and the use of NNTP to provide newsreading access to a local
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network. The book closes with a chapter on the care and feeding of the most
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popular newsreaders on Linux.</P
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>Of course, a book can never exhaustively answer all questions you
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might have. So if you follow the instructions in this book and
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something still does not work, please be patient. Some of your
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problems may be due to mistakes on our part (see the section <A
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>Section 9</A
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>", later in this Preface), but they also may be caused by changes
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in the networking software. Therefore, you should check the listed
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information resources first. There's a good chance that you are not
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alone with your problems, so a fix or at least a proposed workaround
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is likely to be known. If you have the opportunity, you should also
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try to get the latest kernel and network release from one of the Linux
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FTP sites or a BBS near you. Many problems are caused by software
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from different stages of development, which fail to work together
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properly. After all, Linux is a “work in progress.”</P
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>Notes</H3
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> Terry Dawson can be
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