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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:43:57 -0500
> From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: DNS issues
> To: John Easthope <email@hidden>,
> <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <p0623092bc216173bcc63@[192.168.1.90]>
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> At 11:30 AM -0700 3/8/07, John Easthope 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.)
>
> Considering DNS hosting by very reputable services can be had for the
> cost of a beer if you have no budget for that how about placing a
> collection jar by the coffee pot? Seriously.
>
Second that - Dyndns.com gave my school a price of $70 a year ( getting the
macho IT guys to DO that is now the 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.
>
> Then this is just a poor network architecture.
This is your chance to learn to use wireshark and document problems to
contribute to the resolution and your own skill
>
>> When this occurs our OS X workstations and network users can no
>> longer log into the school server.
>
> As expected.
>
For some problems host files can mitigate ( wikipedia.org - look up host
files - )
>> The workstations and the AFP servers reside in the same building
>
> Then make the AFP server box a caching DNS resolver.
>
snip
>> Is there a simple method to make the workstations reliably find the local
>> server without making a request to the central DNS servers?
>
> You should have a local, caching DNS server.
>
> Talk to your network architect.
> --
Band aid: Host file - workaround -
> snip
Best regards,
John Gonder
Las Positas College Cisco Networking Academy
Computer Networking Technologies
email@hidden
925.424.1186
Web Home: http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/jgonder
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