Re: [Server-devel] Problems with the School Server and IIAB
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School Server Experts,
We are trying to deploy an Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) network appliance
to an OLPC and XS school in Pakistan. (http://internet-in-a-box.org)
I need help getting them instructions so they can access the device
using their School Server XS 0.7
The IIAB appliance gets an DHCP lease on startup from their XS 0.7 server.
The IIAB appliance registers its name with the DHCP server as know.
In THEORY, on the XS, dhcpd should register the name know with the
named DNS server (ddns-update-style is set in /etc/dhcpd-xs.conf on my
own XS installation). Then students can access the IIAB appliance at
http://know
- From their reports, this appears to work initially, but after some
time (DHCP lease expires?) it stops working.
I'm looking for a simple solution to communicate to them to assign the
IIAB appliance a fixed IP address. It is currently not (safely)
possible to configure the IIAB appliance for a static IP. Then they
can just refer to it by IP.
I assume it should look something like:
host know {
hardware ethernet 00:03:6D:00:83:CF;
fixed-address 172.18.97.10;
}
added to /etc/dhcpd.conf
But with my very limited School Server experience I don't want to lead
them astray.
Any help appreciated.
- -braddock
On 08/31/2013 04:03 AM, Kishwer.Aziz wrote:
Tony,
Since my return from Pakistan in early August, the local support
team has been struggling with getting the school server and IIAB to
work on the network they have created using 8 routers (one for
every class of 20 students)
I have asked them to explain to me what the problem is and not
being technical I cannot understand what they are telling me. Given
below is their technical explanation for what is happening.
Verbally I have been told that sometimes some children can connect
while others cannot. When they turn the whole system on and off,
look for the IP allocated to the IIAB by the Server, give it to the
children they can connect to it but next day this changes.
Can you find us a solution for us? Tell us what we are doing
wrong?
Regards
Kishwer
*From:*Younus Zafar [mailto:younusza...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday,
August 30, 2013 11:45 AM *To:* Kishwer.Aziz *Subject:*
salam madam
(1)School server is assigning IP of two pools for clients( i-e
172.18.96.X 172.18.97.X
(2) it creates problem for Xo's to connect with IIAB server they
cannot use DNS resolver for domain name “know”
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Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] Problems with the School Server and IIAB
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 06:49 -0700, Braddock wrote:
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School Server Experts,
We are trying to deploy an Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) network appliance
to an OLPC and XS school in Pakistan. (http://internet-in-a-box.org)
I need help getting them instructions so they can access the device
using their School Server XS 0.7
The IIAB appliance gets an DHCP lease on startup from their XS 0.7 server.
The IIAB appliance registers its name with the DHCP server as know.
In THEORY, on the XS, dhcpd should register the name know with the
named DNS server (ddns-update-style is set in /etc/dhcpd-xs.conf on my
own XS installation). Then students can access the IIAB appliance at
http://know
- From their reports, this appears to work initially, but after some
time (DHCP lease expires?) it stops working.
I'm looking for a simple solution to communicate to them to assign the
IIAB appliance a fixed IP address. It is currently not (safely)
possible to configure the IIAB appliance for a static IP. Then they
can just refer to it by IP.
I assume it should look something like:
host know {
hardware ethernet 00:03:6D:00:83:CF;
fixed-address 172.18.97.10;
}
added to /etc/dhcpd.conf
Add that to the template file /etc/dhcpd-xs.conf.in
xs-domain-config this replaces the domain name marker in the template
while copying the file to /etc/dhcpd-xs.conf
reload/restart dhcpd
Jerry
But with my very limited School Server experience I don't want to lead
them astray.
Any help appreciated.
- -braddock
On 08/31/2013 04:03 AM, Kishwer.Aziz wrote:
Tony,
Since my return from Pakistan in early August, the local support
team has been struggling with getting the school server and IIAB to
work on the network they have created using 8 routers (one for
every class of 20 students)
I have asked them to explain to me what the problem is and not
being technical I cannot understand what they are telling me. Given
below is their technical explanation for what is happening.
Verbally I have been told that sometimes some children can connect
while others cannot. When they turn the whole system on and off,
look for the IP allocated to the IIAB by the Server, give it to the
children they can connect to it but next day this changes.
Can you find us a solution for us? Tell us what we are doing
wrong?
Regards
Kishwer
*From:*Younus Zafar [mailto:younusza...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday,
August 30, 2013 11:45 AM *To:* Kishwer.Aziz *Subject:*
salam madam
(1)School server is assigning IP of two pools for clients( i-e
172.18.96.X 172.18.97.X
(2) it creates problem for Xo's to connect with IIAB server they
cannot use DNS resolver for domain name “know”
-- */
/*
*Muhammad Younus Zafar* *_S_*_enior *S*ystem *S*upport *E*ngineer_
BR News Room Aaj News
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[Server-devel] School Server Special Interest Group at OLPC-SF
Hey all, I would like to float the idea of a School Server Special Interest Group as part of the upcoming OLP-SF conference. Over the last year, there has been a lot of activity around the school server. In addition to the ongoing OLPC - School Server work, the School Server Community Edition project has established itself as the leading community supported upstream project. Activity Central is creating Dextrose Server, a professionally support Downstream school server product on top of XSCE. With that in mind, I would like to test the temperature of the water about holding a School Server submit as part OLPC-SF with a possible School Server code sprint to follow. The timing of this summit opens up several opportunities for coordination between the people and organizations developing the School server and the the people and organizations deploying the server. Anyone interested interested in school server focused talks, tutorials, sessions? -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] School Server Special Interest Group at OLPC-SF
Indeed, two very successful XSCE 0.4 RC1 / IIAB server installations here in Haiti over the past 10 days (at 2 very different schools) where George Hunt I learned more than we could have imagined. I'd encourage folks to use the following page as a scratchpad for school server ideas of all kind coming together around SF Oct 18-20 and exactly 4 weeks later in Malaysia Nov 16-18 for the new Asia/Pacific folk too! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.5/Sprint On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hey all, I would like to float the idea of a School Server Special Interest Group as part of the upcoming OLP-SF conference. Over the last year, there has been a lot of activity around the school server. In addition to the ongoing OLPC - School Server work, the School Server Community Edition project has established itself as the leading community supported upstream project. Activity Central is creating Dextrose Server, a professionally support Downstream school server product on top of XSCE. With that in mind, I would like to test the temperature of the water about holding a School Server submit as part OLPC-SF with a possible School Server code sprint to follow. The timing of this summit opens up several opportunities for coordination between the people and organizations developing the School server and the the people and organizations deploying the server. Anyone interested interested in school server focused talks, tutorials, sessions? -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] School Server Special Interest Group at OLPC-SF
Great, I have been thinking of two parallel themes for how school servers can add value to the conference. Dogfooding/Demo. School server developers from various projects could dogfood their work at the conference by providing network connectivity for all participants via their server. This will provide an interesting feedback loop about what works and what else is needed. Plus it could be fun for everyone. Deployment feedback. The idea here would be to have a set of talks by deployments about how school servers add value to their projects and what else school servers can do to make their lives easier. The less time deployments have to worry about technical stuff like school servers, the more time they have to think about the educational side of the project:) From there we can have a talk about how the various people and organizations involved in school server projects can work together (if possible) to meet the needs of deployments. Finally, we can shift to work mode to design and implement solutions identified by dogfooding and deployment feedback. On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Indeed, two very successful XSCE 0.4 RC1 / IIAB server installations here in Haiti over the past 10 days (at 2 very different schools) where George Hunt I learned more than we could have imagined. I'd encourage folks to use the following page as a scratchpad for school server ideas of all kind coming together around SF Oct 18-20 and exactly 4 weeks later in Malaysia Nov 16-18 for the new Asia/Pacific folk too! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.5/Sprint On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hey all, I would like to float the idea of a School Server Special Interest Group as part of the upcoming OLP-SF conference. Over the last year, there has been a lot of activity around the school server. In addition to the ongoing OLPC - School Server work, the School Server Community Edition project has established itself as the leading community supported upstream project. Activity Central is creating Dextrose Server, a professionally support Downstream school server product on top of XSCE. With that in mind, I would like to test the temperature of the water about holding a School Server submit as part OLPC-SF with a possible School Server code sprint to follow. The timing of this summit opens up several opportunities for coordination between the people and organizations developing the School server and the the people and organizations deploying the server. Anyone interested interested in school server focused talks, tutorials, sessions? -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
