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

[Horace Pinker]

Thanks for the reminder, I am one of the people that hasnt really been 
keeping up with this, and was about to suggest the need for a zero hour 
register on the melb wireless web site.
My thoughts ran along the lines of assigning a name to the nodes first ip 
address in the requested range, which when active can be automatically added 
to the register. There would have to be provisions for letting people choose 
a different ip for their assigned name as well as allowing multiple domain 
names if some one required it (would this case pop up?) , heh sometimes i 
wish i knew more about this stuff hehe
but anyway i think plenty of good ideas have already been suggested so its 
now a matter of implementation yeah ?

>From: "Ryan Abbenhuys" <sneeze at alphalink.com.au>
>To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
>Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] DNS......READ THIS!
>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:09:49 +1100
>
>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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