The LAN overhaul begins

Posted on September 26, 2006
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The new network, first hack

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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  1. www.gulker.com beta » Blog Archive » DNS solved: next steps toward the new LAN on October 8th, 2006 8:52 pm

    […] So, now we can begin streamlining the LAN, and moving services onto more compact (and powerful) hardware (e.g. the Core Duo Mini). Our much-liked (and very reliable) G4 Cube and our very nice 64-bit AMD-based Linux machine may be retired and/or reassigned. A couple of new experiments that were in back-of-napkin or prototype stage can now proceed. This should be fun… […]

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