At 11:10 AM -0600 11/22/05, Brendan O'Toole wrote:
In other words, if you're not sure how to drive, stay off the
road. It's not like you can't get someone with experience to host
your DNS for you. Most NSPs provide DNS hosting for their
networks gratis. For those that need hosting, hosting providers
abound. In most cases ppl don't need to or shouldn't be running
their DNS locally.
Except anyone running NAT who needs resolution of internal
addresses, which the OP is...
You don't need DNS for NAT.
I think they he means, if you want to resolve internal, private
range IPs, you need to setup DNS, which I have done with help from
this group for all my schools in the past.
If you want DNS, then yes, you want DNS. But neither NAT nor OS X
Server requires it. OS X Server prefers (very, very strongly) that
you have DNS, but all it really needs is resolution of some kind. DNS
is just the most common way to do this.
You may think I'm stupid because I don't instantly understand
everything I read, and that's possible. But I'm trying my best.
No one has implied that you're stupid, well at least I haven't, but
there are many things you just have to learn from experience. There's
no magic formula for preventing bad DNS (or most other systemsm
management issues) except experience. It's just what separates
sysadmins from systems managers and hostmasters. And it's not like
you can't have someone review your work.
--
-dhan
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