Richard, first, thanks for replying. To explain: I have a system that I like to make completely heterogeneous. This system is just for fun, (which is why it's much more complicated than necessary), but also serves my wife's office requirements (Vet Practice). It is as follows: (All netmasks 24-Bit) 1 Win2K Domain controller office1.praxis 192.168.0.1 2 Win2k as router office2.praxis 192.168.10 + 10.1.1.0 network segment (2 NICs) 3 LEAF-Bering brandmauer.praxis 192.168.0.254 4 Several clients in both networks (movable clients, laptops etc.)
Both Win2K machines have DHCP with small range of leases (the router serves DHCP in both networks), as does the LEAF box DNS is primarily on the Domain Controller as Win Active Directory needs it. For the Internet, dnscache is used on the LEAF box (all hosts receive both DNS servers per DHCP). It's just irritating that when only the LEAF box is running, I can't acces it by FQDN. I could put a hosts file on all clients but this is messy. A zone transfer from Win has been suggested, but dnscache doesn't support this either. I really want a proper DNS server on leaf, but it must work with dnscache together and on the same address, which seems not possible. Robert von Knobloch. Message: 1 Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Static DNS entry From: Richard Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:05:51 -0800 On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 05:05, Erich Titl wrote: > Hi > > At 09:52 22.12.2003 +0100, you wrote: > >Does anyone know a simple way to set a couple of static dns entries on my > >LEAF Bering (uClib) box? I don't see how these entries would solve the problem you describe below. They would help the LEAF box resolve host names, but wouldn't help other hosts resolve the name of your LEAF box. Part of the source of my confusion (and, I suspect, yours) is that you haven't told us how IPs are assigned on your network; I suspect the Win2000 domain server provides DHCP services. If so, how will laptops attached to the network obtain IPs and other network settings when the DHCP server is off-line? > >I'm running DNSCACHE for resolving Internet names and have an MS Win2000 > >Domain controller as internal DNS (it needs it's own dynamic DNS for active > >directory). > >All this works just fine until I power down the complete Windows network > >(which I do every evening). When I want a quick connection from my laptop or > >a visitor's laptop I don't have internal DNS and can't acces my LEAF box by > >name (unless I power my MS domain up). > >I don't want to put a host file on visitor's machines and adding a dns > >server to my LEAF box will disturb CACHEDNS. > >Any ideas ? > > I always thought DNSCache was part of tinydns, e,g, > the djbdns suite. Sort of. dnscache and tinydns are separate parts of the djbdns suite. > Will this really disturb? As Erich's question implies, you can run both tinydns and dnscache on a single host by binding each to a different ip. On a typical LEAF box, tinydns is bound to 127.0.0.1 and dnscache is bound to the IP of the box's internal interface (192.168.1.254 for example). > You could publish your LEAF box to be the nameserver > for your ad-hoc clients, if you want to rely on your > windoze set up to server DNS then do a zone transfer > to your LEAF box to take over once the windoze box is off. > HTH > Erich -Richard ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
