The Site Formerly Known As The Unofficial San Diego RoadRunner FAQ

A brief description of a Linux RoadRunner setup.

Does RoadRunner provide user web pages?

I have two PCs. Can I use both machines with Roadrunner?

How do I hook up more than one computer at a time?

Is RR behind a firewall?

Does RR provide static ip addresses?

(excerpt from a usenet post of mine)

As always, there has been a big clamor about dynamic ip addresses. In
most cases, users do not need a static ip address. What you need is a
static hostname. You want to make sure that everyone knows that your
webserver is joeblow.san.rr.com. You don't/shouldn't care if the ip
address changes every hr as long as the hostname maps to your machine.
Kirk seemed intrigued by this idea and was going to pass it up the line.
We'll see if anything will come of this.  

Users can implement this feature (static hostnames) themselves via a 3rd
party until this is implemented by TW, if ever.  There are organizations
like http://www.dyndns.com and http://www.ml.org that offer this service.

If your sysadmin at work requries that you have a static ip address in
order to access the site, tell him to install ssh, http://www.ssh.org.
As it does a local authentication and then a host authentication based
upon info in your local config files, it does not care what the hostname
or ip address of the machines are that are talking. I have ssh running
on my home linux box, several work boxes that have a shared nfs mounted
account and other ISP account that just recently changed hostnames. Ssh
still works fine between them without changing a thing. At most, you
might want to clean out your known_hosts file when you know that a
hostname has changed. 

Online Professional Xchange (OPX) is also offering this service. Contact David Bullock for details.

Am I required to use a proxy?

How do I configure my system to use the proxy-server?

If you are using Netscape:
Go to Options->Network Preferences...->Proxies->Manual Proxy Configuration
Enter the hosts in the "No Proxy for" field. Netscape 3.x uses spaces to 
      separate hosts and matches the end of a string. No wildcards. 
   Minimal list should include: 
      ams-server login-server:8081 ftp:// gopher:// 127.0.0.1 san.rr.com

If you are using Internet Explorer:
   Go to View->Options->Connection
   Click on proxy settings.
   Enter hosts into the "Exceptions" box. IE uses ; to separate hostname.
   Minimal list should include:
      ams-server;login-server:8081;ftp://;gopher://;127.0.0.1;http://204.210.*.*

If you are using lynx:
   1) Edit your lynx.cfg and modify/add the following line:
     http_proxy:http://proxy-server.san.rr.com:8080

   2) Contributed by Guy Berliner 
	To use a proxy server with lynx, set an environment variable
	called PROTO_proxy, where PROTO is the protocol for which the
	proxy is used. For example, to set up an http proxy using the server
	proxye3-atm.san.rr.com, port 8080 in a Bourne style shell, add

	export http_proxy=proxye3-atm.san.rr.com:8080

I having problems using RealAudio and/or RealVideo. It worked before I installed Roadrunner. What's wrong?

Are there any local game servers?

Rumor has it that I cannot get my mail from anywhere but my home machine, is this true?

Can I participate in the on-going Roadrunner discussions?

Questions/comments:

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