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Newbie question about leopard server and domains/dns etc
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<blockquote data-quote="MacsWork" data-source="post: 795242" data-attributes="member: 11094"><p>10.0.0.1 is fine for the router. I typically reserve 2-20 for servers, switches, NAS boxes and misc networking devices. I usually leave 21-40 for printers and such and then use the server to provide DHCP to the rest of the network 50-200.</p><p></p><p>The server running DNS will try to resolve everything itself until it can't. Then it will forward DNS request to the internet's Root DNS Servers. That is how apple.com and all external requests are handled. They are the master DNS servers that "RUN THE INTERNET!". When you registered invution.com they now handle the requests globally. Without internal DNS people usually use the servers provided by their ISP's. Your ISP will also cache requests for their customers for the sake of load and speed.</p><p></p><p>The .com domains are usually reserved external (internet) domains. The .local domain typically is used for internal domain. So darwin.invution.local would be a typical internal scenario. Darwin being the servers machine name invution being the subdomain .local being the domain type. </p><p></p><p>The server will provide the invution.local domain or anything on the LAN with invution.local as the DNS server with name resolution. People get confused because Bonjour runs on all Macs so the sidebar in the Finder gets populated because of this without DNS.</p><p></p><p>Because you're using DHCP internally they can use DHCP at home or on the road. If you want them to connect to the server at work they will need to connect to the internet address of the office. This can be a static ip provided by your ISP or a registered domain name for your static IP like invution.office.com. Or if you have a dynamic IP from your ISP, DYNDNS will get you connected with a free account.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacsWork, post: 795242, member: 11094"] 10.0.0.1 is fine for the router. I typically reserve 2-20 for servers, switches, NAS boxes and misc networking devices. I usually leave 21-40 for printers and such and then use the server to provide DHCP to the rest of the network 50-200. The server running DNS will try to resolve everything itself until it can't. Then it will forward DNS request to the internet's Root DNS Servers. That is how apple.com and all external requests are handled. They are the master DNS servers that "RUN THE INTERNET!". When you registered invution.com they now handle the requests globally. Without internal DNS people usually use the servers provided by their ISP's. Your ISP will also cache requests for their customers for the sake of load and speed. The .com domains are usually reserved external (internet) domains. The .local domain typically is used for internal domain. So darwin.invution.local would be a typical internal scenario. Darwin being the servers machine name invution being the subdomain .local being the domain type. The server will provide the invution.local domain or anything on the LAN with invution.local as the DNS server with name resolution. People get confused because Bonjour runs on all Macs so the sidebar in the Finder gets populated because of this without DNS. Because you're using DHCP internally they can use DHCP at home or on the road. If you want them to connect to the server at work they will need to connect to the internet address of the office. This can be a static ip provided by your ISP or a registered domain name for your static IP like invution.office.com. Or if you have a dynamic IP from your ISP, DYNDNS will get you connected with a free account. [/QUOTE]
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