Dns

Exploring Active Directory with Free Software

       1376 words, 7 minutes

In an Active Directory environments, you have (Windows) computers joined to a domain that does a lot a magic to allow you to use services without really thinking of it. You have Network Browsing, Exchange auto discovery… I’m going to use general I.T. tools to explore the Active Directory and guess what we can connect to with our non-Microsoft system.

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Back to the sea ; the Domain Name Service (DNS), episode III

       532 words, 3 minutes

Here’s the directions to configure a dual-view DNS on OpenBSD. I’ll be using BIND 9.4.2-P2 as shipped with 4.8.

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OSX doesn't like CNAME to .local. domain...

       325 words, 2 minutes

Looks like OSX doesn’t like CNAMEs pointing to local. DNS entries…

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A dual-view DNS

       451 words, 3 minutes

I’m hosting my whole IT services (OSI Layer 7) that’s no news. I configured my DNS server for both outside and inside requests. Depending on who asks, it doesn’t answer the same thing. This is what BIND views are for.

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Flush Leopard local DNS cache

       55 words, 1 minutes

I had to change my IP addressing (because the Airport Extreme didn’t support 10.15.5.12/24). During the DNS modification, I couldn’t reach some of the machines. Obvisously, the Mac was keeping the old IP address in cache.

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