Hi DongInn,
thanks... and yes, I knew what it was good for. But I thought there is some
trouble with the package and that's the reason for disabling it. You say it is
basically fine (though I'm not sure there is a caching-nameserver RPM coming
with SuSE or Mandriva).
You're right, it is not really needed, but we actually used to enable all
packages which do something reasonable and let the administrators disable
those they don't want. I mean: with mpich, lam, pvm, openmpi we use that
policy...
Anyway, if it works, I don't really care whether it is enabled or not by
default. Maybe someone else has some stronger opinion?
Regards,
Erich
On Thursday 26 October 2006 19:46, DongInn Kim wrote:
> Hi Erich,
>
> I wonder if this comment may be helpful to have a better understanding
> of the package "networking".
> > The networking package was created to set up the OSCAR server as a caching
> > nameserver. %and/or set the clients' DNS server.
> >
> > By default, this package will set up a caching nameserver on the OSCAR
> > server.
> > %If chosen in the configurator, this package will set the nameserver
> > entry in
> > %the clients' \begin{verbatim} /etc/resolv.conf \end{verbatim}. If
> > the clients
> > %are pointed to an external (i.e. not in the cluster) DNS server, then
> > their
> > %networking options (esp. gateway) are set properly
> This is quoted from networking/doc/install.tex and I don't think that it
> is necessary by default unless compute nodes should have DNS resolution.
> That's why we disabled the package "networking" by default.
> But I don't think that it is bad or unreliable. Just we have not needed
> to turn it on by default.
>
> Regards,
>
> - DongInn
>
> Erich Focht wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > does anybody remember why the caching nameserver (OSCAR package
> > "networking")
> > was disabled by default? Is it bad or unreliable? Or is there any other
> > better
> > solution?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > regards,
> > Erich
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