Well I can't speak for ITS, but I know in my company that AD Implementation led to 100% DNS reliance, thankfully WINS has left the building. :) On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:14:36AM -0500, Jon Beck wrote: > > I'm getting really sick of not being able to do nfs mounts, remotely > > query my box running mysql or ssh into my laptop. > > > I've tried stoping samba, waiting a good 20 minutes and then > > restarting it to no avail. > > > I'm just sick of the DNS not working right. > > Ditto. There are a couple of band-aids I use: I try to remember to > write down my numerical IP each morning on a post-it so that if name > resolution doesn't work I can still get in. If I forget, my > dynamically-assigned box periodically queries a server and I sometimes > have to look in the server's logs to find my IP. > > Also, I don't think that waiting 20 mins to restart samba helps; > rather, wait just 5 minutes after restarting and if it didn't take, > try restarting again. I haven't gone so far as to write a cron job to > restart samba if it detects an incorrect DNS entry, but I've thought > about doing so. > > Beyond that, however, ITS has promised that the upcoming deployment of > Microsoft Active Directory will cure all DNS problems and give us > correct authoritative DNS results with no time lag. I hope so, and > I'm looking forward to it. Perhaps an ITS member of the list could > give us an update on the AD project? > > -- > Jon Beck, PhD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Assoc Professor, Computer Science 2162 Violette Hall > Truman State University 660-785-7233 > Kirksville, MO 63501 http://vh216202.truman.edu/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >
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