On 12/08/2010 11:49 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Hi once again ..!
I need to get a working DNS server on an internal network port that has absolutely zero effect at all on a wlan connection (just happens to be my outside connection and gets it's ip from the wireless router)
the ethernet port i want to hang my NAS device off needs to have a dns server on it . now on 10.1 this was an absolute whiz simple as you like but now 11.3 Oh boy how the heck does one setup a dns on 11.3 that talks to eth0 only with a base address of 192.168.1.1
it must have no effect at all on wlan0
Pete .
Uuhg.. dunno? I would tell you to let bind provide addresses for both wired and wireless. I've never had reason to do one but not the other. I always figured it was better to have name resolution handled in one spot for the whole subnet. I can't say enough about the relatively painless setup of bind configured to receive dynamic updates from dhcpd using t-sig keys. You then have one central dns mechanism and can use dhcpd.conf for fine grain control of the address space. Generally, the only tweaks that I do other than separating the fixed/dynamic address ranges it to assign specific fixed addresses to hosts based on mac addresses that lets me guarantee that a specific box gets a specific address handed out when they show up on the network. e.g.: host Rankin-P35a.3111skyline.com { hardware ethernet 00:11:f5:15:2d:83; fixed-address 192.168.6.101; } guarantees my old Tosh laptop gets .101 assigned even though it is coming in over a wireless link while: host killerz.3111skyline.com { hardware ethernet 00:21:85:14:F0:FE; fixed-address 192.168.6.106; } my son's box gets 106 coming in over a wired link. Is there any reason you couldn't use a standard setup like that? If so, you could set it up once and then just forget about it for years..... It just keeps working. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org