On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use bind to resolve wiki.laptop.org to be that of the local XS server? > Not too sure if that would break anything else.
Running a split horizon dns breaks access to the wiki :-/ > You could use iptables here to pick out the web traffic bound for > wiki.laptop.org just like the squid rules but using -d <ipaddress> to > redirect to the local webserver. If we are using squd, we can use the "per url" redirector. But clients will do their own DNS lookup, and that gets us back to split horizon DNSs. The whole thing is rather messy. We control the server and the client, I would want to come up with a simple (and cheap) euristic on the client side that says "am I in the school server network?" and if that's true, tries http://schoolserver/somepath first. In fact, we recently realised that the problem is more involved than the description posted earlier by Douglas: Once an activity is installed on the XO, the activity metadata may have a URL that will point to the author's download page. Those URLs are not known in advance by the XS (unless we get into a nasty business of unpackign the metadata and guessing). If the client code reads the metadata and attempts to find an updated version in http://schoolserver/Activities first, then the whole problem goes away... cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
