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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andrew Tiltman
wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > I figured you would have one centralised 'master'
bind server, and have each<BR>> > AP running a slave.. providing the AP's
are perminantly connected to the<BR>> > net.<BR>> <BR>> Essentially,
yes.<BR>> <BR>> Points of order:<BR>> <BR>> - there's no requirement
for each node to be a "slave" (although there<BR>> might be good operational
reasons for this). You can just query the DNS<BR>> as a client,
provided you know where the DNS root servers are.<BR>> <BR>> - APs
generally don't support operation as DNS servers (I don't know of<BR>> any
that do).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When i speak of AP's i dont specifically mean the
hardware, obviously i ment each access point (locations for local nodes to
connect to) would obviously run their own server providing such
things.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you ran an access point using a compaq wl200 or
other on a linux box, you could run bind, dhcpd, etc.. whatever else you
need to provide for clients.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That or have the 'hardware' access point routed
through a linux machine providing said services before heading out to the
rest of melbourne.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wasnt thinking along the lines of running our own
root servers, its messy and not required if we keep within the private ip
ranges.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As long as the dns servers we provide are connected
to the internet as well as the RAN people could use those as their primary dns
for any application (RAN/internet etc) whilst being connected to the ran, if
people are willing to give up a wee bit of their bandwith.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And yes they would definately be caching
nameservers to reduce overall bandwith over the RAN</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Damn i hope that turns out how i mean, i'm still
learning :)</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyhow, I must sleep..
early start tomorrow, nite ;)<BR>-Andrew</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>