On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jolly Roger wrote:
> Konstantin Reznitsky told me that you need to have a valid DNS entry of the
> netatalk server for macs to be able to resolve the name they are getting
> from chooser. Is it possible that because I do not have this set up, Mac OS
> is unable to connect via TCP/IP without having the IP?
>
> I know next to nothing about setting up valid DNS entries on Linux. I have
> no registered domain, so I am not sure how I can set a valid DNS entry on my
> machine. In Linux config, I set the domain to an arbitrary name. Is this
> not a good idea? What should I do instead? Can someone enlighten me?
I believe this is the order of events:
- I see server in chooser and tell mac to connect
- Mac connects to server using DDP
- Server says, "hey, you can connect to me using TCP/IP. Here is my DNS
name."
- Mac looks up DNS name to get IP address of server
- Mac connects to server over TCP/IP
If you have made up a DNS name for the server (e.g. my.server.com), then
the mac will try to lookup that DNS name to get the IP address (which is
what it really needs to know to connect). Obviously, this will fail if ou
don't have a DNS server or the DNS name you set is not valid.
I'm not positive, but there should be a facility on the mac which lets you
create a static mapping of DNS name <-> IP address in a file. In unix and
windows, there is a file called 'hosts' which looks something like:
192.168.1.3 my.server.com
192.168.1.4 other.server.com
You might poke around the TCP/IP control panel on the mac to see if this
is available.
Otherwise, you'll need to get your IP address and DNS name into a DNS
server which the mac can query.
Andy
