On 3/8/07 10:30 AM, "John Easthope" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Our environment suffers from old, unreliable DNS servers. I am aware of the
> importance of good DNS servers in an OS X environment and we have approached
> management about updating these servers but currently we have no budget to
> replace them. (Educational institute.)
>
> Our problem...
>
> We occasionally have networking outages from our remote schools to the
> central DNS servers or more commonly the DNS servers just stop working or
> responding. When this occurs our OS X workstations and network users can no
> longer log into the school server. The workstations and the AFP servers
> reside in the same building
>
> I have examined the network traffic using tcpdump and have confirmed that
> the workstations are indeed making a request to the central DNS servers to
> resolve the name of the server. When the DNS servers respond, everything
> works. When they don't, no one can login until DNS services are restored.
>
> My question for the group is...
>
> Is there a simple method to make the workstations reliably find the local
> server without making a request to the central DNS servers?
>
> Hardware and software information:
> We run OS 10.3 and 10.4 on our workstations and servers
> Our workstations are pointed to the server using the LDAP settings in
> Directory Access
> User's home directories are located on the school's server
> No users log in locally to a workstation
> Mobile accounts are not an option
> The workstation get their IP address via DHCP (static IPs are not an
> option)
There's always the ol' hosts file. If you only have a handful of FQDNs
you're willing to hardcode to IPs, it's pretty dang easy:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88158
Matt
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