On 3/8/07 1:38 PM, "Matt Rosenberg" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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)
>
This is exactly the situation where you should set up one of your local
servers as a DNS server for your LAN. In fact you should really have two.
Set them up as slaves, point your local clients to them.
>
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