Btw are the details of the Timor Leste deployment public? Would love to promote this to the NZ list On 12/07/2011 6:07 AM, "Tim Moody" <[email protected]> wrote: > You didn't mention the make and model of your WAP, but it sounds like it is > acting as a dhcp server and a dns server. When it hands the xo an ip addr > it also says that it is the dns server (192.168.1.1). I'm guessing the xos
> can find each other, just not the server. > > Some wireless routers allow you to add static addresses to the dhcp/dns and > some even discover them, but don't know the device name. If yours does, > just add 192.168.1.100 and tell the WAP that its name is Schoolserver. > > If you want to use the XS as dns, I think you will need to use it as dhcp as > well. I know the AU-XS folks are working on a simple way to turn this on, > but I'm not sure if it is in place yet. In this case you need to turn dhcp > off in your WAP. > > What happens if you go into the networking maintenance section on the xo and > tell it that your schoolserver is 192.168.1.100 rather than giving it a > name? Of course, this would be a clumsy approach because you would have to > do it in every xo. > > >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:08:16 +0930 >> From: Tom Daly <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Server-devel] DNS question for East Timor deployment >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Dear all, >> >> A colleague and I are working on a small XO deployment in East Timor and >> are having trouble accessing the XS server from the XOs. We are using the >> Australian XS server software builds and are using a wireless access >> point that is NOT connected to the internet. Our issue is that as we are >> not connected to the internet we do not have *easy* access to a DNS >> server. My first plan was to simply use the IP address from the XOs to >> access the school server e.g. http://192.168.1.100 but the XOs still seem >> to want to use DNS. >> >> Question: can I easily turn on DNS server on the XS given that we do not >> have an internet connection ? >> If so how do I do this ? >> >> On the XO's : >> /etc/nsswitch.conf says files dns >> And /etc/resolv.conf appears to get the nameserver 192.168.1.1 entry when >> the XO connects to the WAP for the first time. >> >> So >> XO Server ------------ WAP -------------- XS Server | >> >> thanks for any assistance >> Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
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