On 3/8/07 11:42 AM, "Eric Berna" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 3/8/07 12:30 PM, "John Easthope" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> My question for the group is...
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>> Is there a simple method to make the workstations reliably find the local
>> server without making a request to the central DNS servers?
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> I'm not a DNS expert, but couldn't John run a secondary DNS server caching
> the contents of the central DNS server on the local Mac OS X Servers? All
> the local workstations would look to the local server for DNS, so wouldn't
> be bothered when the central servers fail. This would use the DNS services
> of his existing Mac OS X Servers, so wouldn't cost more than the time to set
> it up.
We have looked at this before and the Networking Gods would not give us
permission to run local DNS servers. (We really want to do this!) Thanks for
the suggestion though.
John
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