On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Joe Yoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2003 is the machine I use to experiment with so I may be making changes > that would prevent Internet only users from accessing the Internet.
Okay. I'd suggest you consider partitioning "machines in the lab" from "production machines." This doesn't mean buying new hardware necessarily, only doing your experiments on virtual machines you can partition off from those in the workspace. > Also > I am out of the office for weeks at a time and if something happens to > 2003 I prefer to take care of it myself when I get back rather than > paying someone to come in and fix it so the Internet only machines can > still work. Sounds like a remote control solution could solve a lot of your problems. >>Most _clients_ do not handle DNS this way. If a DHCP server supplies >>them with two or three DNS servers to use, they rotate amongst them. I'm sorry, Joe, I think I misled you on this one. I was thinking about DNS resolution when a single domain name had multiple IPs association with it, a "poor man's round-robin DNS" and got the directions backwards. Preferred and alternate do work as a failover mechanism. >>> I expect there would be a way to setup a Linux box to do the job but I >>> would prefer avoiding adding any equipment with rotating parts. >> >>My favorite Linux box for DNS and DHCP and much more is the Linksys >>WRTLS54GS. There are no rotating parts. > > That sounds interesting. Does one need to flash the firmware or does the > box ship with Linux? Both, actually: the machine ships with Linux installed (as do many other routers; check out the list at http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware, for example), but third-party firmware solutions tend to offer more capabilities and at least as good reliability as the factory original. > The D-Link router I'm using has a Vonage VOIP adapter built in. I > checked with their technical support people and they had no suggestions > to offer. Yeah, a proprietary solution like that is likely to limit your options. > The 2003 box sets up an active directory that several machines > authenticate to. I had problems with connections dropping before I setup > the domain machines to use the 2003 DNS server. I also need a special > zone to handle local access to a dynDNS address that resolves to the 2003 > box. Well, you've got some challenges there. I haven't tried to do a lot of tricky things with my router, but I suspect it could handle the special zone you need. And taking the 2003 server out of the DNS mix should solve the problems of what to do should it stop working. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
