DNS Enabler worked as advertised on our Intel Mac Mini, so I went back to the G4 Mac Mini, and on the 3rd try, it worked (I suspect user error caused the initial failure… RTFM). So I have to move the Intel Mini onto the wired LAN, figure out if I need to route the wireless LAN, and start moving other services.

It appears that the new DNS server is forwarding properly, which I’m not sure is the case with the older hand-configured server. DNS Enabler brings Mac-like UI to BIND and gets kudos from this user for being much easier than hand-configuring BIND’s config files.

Cutedge Systems, makers of DNS Enabler also make PostFix Enabler, so maybe we can return to an inside-the-firewall mail server (with the potential to do heavy-duty spam filtering). Comcast began blocking our SMTP server about a year ago, and I’m momentarily expecting them to block access to gulker.com’s SMTP server (although I think they have a way to apply to lift the port blocker). Onward..

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