[MLB-WIRELESS] DNS......READ THIS!

[Rob]

I wasn't aware that something was already in place...   Oooopps,

Cheers,

Rob.



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From: "Ryan Abbenhuys" <sneeze at alphalink.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:09 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] DNS......READ THIS!


> Here we go again...
>
> Some people have bad memory and someone on the current committee needs to
> document this somewhere obvious.
>
> Currently if you would like a DNS name drop an email to the committee list
> with the IP and node ID.
>
> The committee will then pass the details to the kind person who runs
> www.mwnode.com
>
> They will map nodename.mwnode.com to whatever melbwireless IP address you
> are using.
> For example try pinging "aaf.mwnode.com" and you will see it resolves to
> 10.10.128.1 which is my IP.  Of course you can't get a reply unless you
are
> connected to a section of the wireless network that is connected to me.
>
> As 99% of people have an Internet connection many of which are permenant
> they can simply use their ISP's DNS server to resolve Node IP addresses
> meaning they next to no extra config.
>
> For those who don't have Internet access a kind soul in the area on the
> wireless network who also has a permenant internet connection can run a
> simple DNS server that looks up Internet DNS servers.  I believe most if
not
> all DNS servers do this as default and require no configuration to get to
> this point.
>
> You can see on www.mwnode.com all of the nodes that currently have DNS
> entries.
>
>
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