Re: [Fed-Talk] Small OS X Server installations without DNS?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Small OS X Server installations without DNS?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Small OS X Server installations without DNS?
- From: David Emery <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:18:50 -0500
But the question is whether the DNS server has to be on -my network-, or
just reachable?
It seems to me based on one non-authoritative experiment the latter
applies.
The root DNS for my domain is actually done by a friend who knows a lot
more about DNS than I do.
So if My-Server.local is located at 192.168.1.10, and I got my friend to
set up my-server.my-domain.com to resolve to 192.168.1.10, and then I
removed 1921.168.1.10 from a client workstation's list of DNS servers,
it seems that the client's LDAP worked just fine (as evidenced by the
mobile account on the client finding the server and synching with it.)
That's good for the clients, the question is what would happen if I
turned off DNS on the server itself...
dave
Rich Trouton wrote:
Dave,
If you're talking about Open Directory, having DNS available to the
server is a necessary pre-requisite. You can run the DNS either on the
server itself, or use a DNS server located elsewhere on your network.
Thanks,
Rich
On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:49 PM, David Emery wrote:
I know most of you are in real enterprise situations where this doesn't
apply, but has anyone gotten OS X Leopard Server LDAP to work without
also enabling DNS? This makes sense for my SOHO situation where I don't
really host a formal domain, but I was unable to get LDAP accounts to
work unless I also enabled DNS on the OS X Server.
I did get this to work in Tiger Server; the LDAP stuff was happy with
"my-server.local", but not in Leopard Server.
dave
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