On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:30:29 -0700, John Easthope
<email@hidden> wrote:
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)
Sorry if I'm late to the party, but I'm in digest mode. Set one or
more of your Mac servers to be slave or secondary DNS responders for
the domain, et voila. When the primary DNS server(s) quit talking,
the Macs servers will answer queries for you.
Best,
Ted Dively
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