With the Mini finally upgraded, we can get down to the fun part, architecting the new LAN. First stop will be to learn a bit more about DNS behavior, and then doing the back-of-envelope diagrams that serve as a starting point. The half-terabyte array, an SMB share, is proving to be problematic on our Mac network. The drives drop off mysteriously, and copying large directories is problematic – SMB doesn’t accept many characters in filenames that are OK on Mac and HFS, so a copy operation like a full-drive backup frequently fails. The debate is whether to bring back Mac OS X Server, or netatalk on Linux.

The DNS is already up, but we’re still seeing an issue with forwarding happening slowly: I think a dive into the log files may be necessary to figure out what’s going on. So first we’ll get basic DNS going and then begin solving the other issues…

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