Archive for December, 2011

airline ticket name change

A self-styled consumer advocate claims here that “the non-transferrability rule for tickets is bogus … it has absolutely nothing to do with security and everything to do with money.” He says this on account of somebody who was able to get a name changed on a ticket after paying $800 in fees. The best you can do? No, because in this amazing comment below:

Krys
$800?? Wow. Here is what I did and it only cost me about $60.
I had similar problem. The ticket was in my name and i bought it in June 08 for the trip to Poland in December. In July, my grandmother died. Since we did not have a lot of money I decided to give my ticket to my dad. I ran into the same problems trying to change name on the ticket. After whole week of trying I gave up. I looked into changing my dad’s legal name. And there it was. A process that took about 1 week, $60 in cash, 15 minutes in front of judge and we had my dad’s first name changed to mine. I was honest with the judge as to why he wanted to change his first name (my dad doesnt speak english). Once we got the approval, we went to secretary of state to get him new license, once we got that we got him new green card (took 2 months) and there he went. He now changed his name back for another $60.

connection sharing on linux

To turn a linux box with two network interfaces into a NAT router with the most basic functions, four separate changes are required. This is more complicated than it needs to be. For future reference:

1. Enable packet forwarding in the “registry”:
Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to add
net/ipv4/ip_forward=1 then
> sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

2. Set address sharing for outbound traffic and poke holes in the firewall:
Assume eth0 is the WAN-facing interface and eth1 is the LAN-facing interface, then
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state –state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> /etc/init.d/iptables save active
> /etc/init.d/iptables restart
Turn on the iptables service in sysvconfig

3. Enable automatic serving of dynamic LAN IP’s:
Assume 10.0.0.x is the LAN-side subnet and 192.168.0.1 is the WAN-side DNS server or gateway, then
Edit /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf to add, e.g.
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
     range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.10;
     option routers 10.0.0.1;
     option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1
}

> /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart

4. Set the LAN-facing interface to be on the LAN-side subnet:
Assume 10.0.0.1 is the LAN-side address of connection sharing machine, then
Edit /etc/network/interfaces to add
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
     address 10.0.0.1
     netmask 255.255.255.0
     gateway 192.168.0.1

> /etc/init.d/networking restart