[Cialug] DNS and playing well with OSX

[Don Ellis]

Matt,

Apology not accepted! :-)

I am very happy to see your setup and suggestions, and will try to
apply it to my own network [when I get a little spare time ;-) ]

To further muddy the issue:

I have a D-Link router (very inexpensive) which I have not yet
upgraded to an aftermarket OS. In the DHCP settings, I have set static
addresses for my MacOSX systems and my GoFlex NAS (as well as other
systems). I just tried pinging the various systems by name, and was
able to ping my Macs by name, but not the GoFlex. I tried pinging the
GoFlex by IP address, and was successful.

New hypothesis: perhaps the Macintosh names are being provided via
Bonjour, and the other system names are not? If this is part of the
tangle, then you might have additional solutions to be confused by,
i.e. arrange for the Non-Mac systems to also connect with Bonjour.
This might mask your success with getting DNS to work properly. [ As
part of this, would Bonjour provide the Snow Leopard system's name to
the Ubuntu system? I'm not that clear on inner workings of Bonjour. ]

Zach, does this sound reasonable?

--Don Ellis


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
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> -- Matt (N0BOX)
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> P.S. - If you've already done all this and set it up basically the same way, then I'm sorry for going so in-depth, but without being able to actually look at the configuration of your home network and the nameserver records it's hard to make suggestions.  :(
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> From: Moder John II Lee <jmoder at me.com>
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Sent: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 7:26 PM
> Subject: [Cialug] DNS and playing well with OSX
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> Hello--  I am a new subscriber here, and was hoping to learn some about a new Linux install, and fix an initial problem I am having.
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