Re: [cobalt-users] HELP: DNS on the RaQ3

[main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Jeff,

I appreciate your words of advice.  I do have a copy of DNS and Bind.
Until I am proficient at this (does one ever become proficient at DNS?),
I seek only to learn the RaQ3 DNS interface so we can have proper DNS
lookups on the RaQ.

If you know of a professional DNS consultant with Knowledge of the RaQs
(maybe yourself Jeff????), we will consider using their services.

Until then, we continue seeking the RaQ specific knowledge that Cobalt
seems to have left out of their PDF files.  Considering the types of
customers who are buying their products (many with limited DNS
knowledge), I hope Cobalt will 'elaborate' on the RaQ* DNS in the near
future.

Thanks,
Bill

Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 
> main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > >From there, we are a bit confused as to how the rest of the settings
> > should go.
> >
> > Control Panel: Network: General Settings >> what should be in the
> > Primary DNS Server Address
> > Control Panel: Network: General Settings >> what should be in the
> > Secondary DNS Server Address
> 
> These settings don't necessarily have anything to do with your own RaQ's
> nameservers at all.
> 
> These are the nameservers the RaQ will use to find other systems.
> 
> If you've got a Windows computer you're familiar with, then the analogy
> is to think of these settings the same way you think of the DNS settings
> in dial-up networking.
> 
> Personally, I'd always use offsite nameservers here.  Otherwise, if your
> nameserver stops working, everything else in your Raq that depends on IP
> address resolution stops working as well.
> 
> For example:  You've set up an elaborate checking mechanism that checks
> every part of your RaQ to make sure it's working, and sends an email to
> your text-message pager if anything stops working.
> 
> The nameserver stops working.  Your RaQ can't send the email to let you
> know, because it's depenedent on the nameserver.
> 
> > Are there any other settings we need to change/add in order to make dns
> > work on this server
> 
> Yes.  The first step is under Control Panel.  You need to check "Domain
> Name Service Server" and click on "Save Changes", if it's not already
> checked.
> 
> And of course you need to understand DNS well enough to set up your
> server.  This is no trivial task, and I highly recommend either
> carefully studying the book "DSN and Bind" until you realize why you
> need more than one name-server acting as both primary and secondary.  Or
> else, hiring a professional <wry grin>.
> 
> As I've said over and over again, DNS is NOT trivial, and it's the most
> important part of your system.  Don't leave it to amateurs.
> 
> > FYI:  The IP address listed in Control Panel: Network: Interface
> > Settings - Network 1
> > is NOT the same as our IP for either the primary or secondary NS listed
> > above.  Could this
> > be a problem?  Should it match the Primary NS IP address?
> 
> No, and No.
> 
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I hope I've been of some help.
> 
> Jeff
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