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{ Monthly Archives } August 2008

Problems with Redundant dhcpd/dns (part 2)

As I mentioned last time, I ran into some challengesincredibly annoying problems setting up a dhcpd failover server. 1. Dhcpd doesn’t record full data for foreign leases. At first I thought it would be enough to run dhcpd with a failover peer and use djb_update.pl to create the host list for tinydns.  But then I [...]

2008 08 25 Sam_old Uncategorized Comments (0)

Redundant DHCPd and Tinydns Setup (part 1)

Here are the before and after pictures. We used to have two independent single points of failure. If boris was down, nobody could get an IP address, and internal name resolution didn’t work because the cache couldn’t see the tinydns server (on boris) that is authoritative for the internal network. If draco the firewall was [...]

2008 08 22 Sam_old Uncategorized Comments (0)