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

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

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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