On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:03:22AM +1100, Owen n Fleur Chambers +Patrick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that's about the strength of it, I need to be able to point e-smith to my
> works primary Dns server and possibly to my other e-smith server
OK - we need to revisit the delegated DNS settings.
> thanks again
> owen
> i think 4.1 is a pretty kewl product from what i have had fun with so far
Thanks,
Gordon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon Rowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Michael Doerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Owen n Fleur Chambers
> +Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 2:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: DNS Primary/Secondary (was Re:
> [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1 b2)
>
>
> > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 10:29:20AM -0500, Gordon Rowell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 02:00:51PM +1300, Michael Doerner
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > To achieve that, as far as I understand, we could disable Bind on the
> new
> > > > installation and would have to change the template that creates
> > > > /etc/resolv.conf so that the contents of /etc/resolv.conf has a
> content of
> > > > nameserver 'IP of e-smith production server'.
> > > >
> > > > With this, all own DNS requests of the new server will be resolved by
> the
> > > > production server's Bind like all requests from the Windows machines
> on
> > > > the LAN.
> > >
> > > We also need to ensure consistency of WINS/DHCP details as well.
> >
> > Whoops. Sorry for the short reply - brain/fingers interface
> > problem. Let's try again now that I understand your issue of
> > migration. We have had quite a few problems with people configuring
> > Primary/Secondary DNS to point to a box which only knows part of the
> > namespace.
> >
> > We have also have had people configure forwarders to ISP machines
> > which are not complete DNS servers and in most cases, letting e-smith
> > work it out is correct.
> >
> > We have various areas which need to be kept consistent, DNS, DHCP, and
> > WINS. For this to work properly, we need to be able to delegate those
> > nameservices to another box and we've already given some thought to
> > that. Just delegating DNS will cause inconsistency of naming for
> > Windows clients as WINS also creates names which must be managed.
> >
> > > > Owen, is that what you were asking?
> >
> > Gordon
> > --
> > Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com (corporate)
> > Phone: +1 (613) 564 8000 ext. 4378 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739
> > e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada
> >
>
Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com (corporate)
Phone: +1 (613) 564 8000 ext. 4378 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739
e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada
