Re: architecture question

2013-05-09 Thread Jeremy P
; > From: Jeremy P > > > In my experience the students who "get it" and comprehend the > > concepts are able to heed the warnings of "in real life, we would do > > this a little different". The students who don't "get it" are gonna &g

Re: architecture question

2013-05-09 Thread Jeremy P
I certainly didn't intend to spark off such a firestorm with my original question. I have learned a lot from the debate though. On the question of what to use with students, it is a fine thing to say "we should only do things the way they are done in real life so students don't learn bad habits",

Re: architecture question

2013-05-08 Thread Jeremy P
I understand letter of the law, spirit of the law and playing it safe to avoid headaches. However, there are times where registering a real domain just isn't practical. For example, I'm not going to ask all of the students in my courses to go out and register a .com for the semester. It would be

Re: architecture question

2013-05-08 Thread Jeremy P
t; On May 8, 2013, at 10.56, Jeremy P wrote: > > > I am building a lab environment where there are several separate > domains, all of them ending in .local > > on a side note, i would strongly discourage you from using .local in dns. > .local is a "ps

architecture question

2013-05-08 Thread Jeremy P
I am building a lab environment where there are several separate domains, all of them ending in .local I've setup a server for the .local TLD, but I'm undecided (or perhaps ignorant) as to the best way to have the individual domains (domain1.local, domain2.local, etc) refer to the local zone on my