On 3/8/07 2:24 PM, "david" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:59 PM, John Easthope wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/8/07 11:42 AM, "Eric Berna" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/8/07 12:30 PM, "John Easthope" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Sounds somewhat farcical :(
> Perhaps you might suggest that these self-titled (?) Networking
> "Gods" should then fix the issues that you
> "...occasionally have networking outages from our remote schools to the
> central DNS servers or more commonly the DNS servers just stop
> working or responding"
Agreed. I can see why they would want to avoid administering more servers,
but if it's at the cost of a functional network, it's, er, um, a stupid
idea.
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