[Server-devel] DNS question for East Timor deployment

[Tim McNamara]

Btw are the details of the Timor Leste deployment public? Would love to
promote this to the NZ list
On 12/07/2011 6:07 AM, "Tim Moody" <timmoody at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> You didn't mention the make and model of your WAP, but it sounds like it
is
> acting as a dhcp server and a dns server. When it hands the xo an ip addr
> it also says that it is the dns server (192.168.1.1). I'm guessing the xos

> can find each other, just not the server.
>
> Some wireless routers allow you to add static addresses to the dhcp/dns
and
> some even discover them, but don't know the device name. If yours does,
> just add 192.168.1.100 and tell the WAP that its name is Schoolserver.
>
> If you want to use the XS as dns, I think you will need to use it as dhcp
as
> well. I know the AU-XS folks are working on a simple way to turn this on,
> but I'm not sure if it is in place yet. In this case you need to turn dhcp

> off in your WAP.
>
> What happens if you go into the networking maintenance section on the xo
and
> tell it that your schoolserver is 192.168.1.100 rather than giving it a
> name? Of course, this would be a clumsy approach because you would have to

> do it in every xo.
>
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:08:16 +0930
>> From: Tom Daly <tdaly61 at gmail.com>
>> To: server-devel at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: [Server-devel] DNS question for East Timor deployment
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> A colleague and I are working on a small XO deployment in East Timor and
>> are having trouble accessing the XS server from the XOs. We are using the

>> Australian XS server software builds and are using a wireless access
>> point that is NOT connected to the internet. Our issue is that as we are
>> not connected to the internet we do not have *easy* access to a DNS
>> server. My first plan was to simply use the IP address from the XOs to
>> access the school server e.g. http://192.168.1.100 but the XOs still seem

>> to want to use DNS.
>>
>> Question: can I easily turn on DNS server on the XS given that we do not
>> have an internet connection ?
>> If so how do I do this ?
>>
>> On the XO's :
>> /etc/nsswitch.conf says files dns
>> And /etc/resolv.conf appears to get the nameserver 192.168.1.1 entry when

>> the XO connects to the WAP for the first time.
>>
>> So
>> XO Server ------------ WAP -------------- XS Server |
>>
>> thanks for any assistance
>> Tom
>
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