[Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> appliance runs nothing more than ejabberd. There's no moodle, dhcp,
> dns or other services.

How does the appliance get a domain name?

> Then the children just set a collaboration server to connect to in the
> Network CP applet. They use the address of the appliance for their
> classroom. This achieves a segregation effect in a simple way.

How do kids know what domain name to put in there? Isn't it a complex
and error-prone step?

cheers,


m
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