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Re: Multi-homing in Mac OS

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2001
Time: 8:17:47 pm

At 1:02 PM +1100 3/23/01, Nicholas Orr wrote:
>Slightly offtopic, but seeing as I'm doing this to run Quick DNS I thought
>I'd start here.
>
>I'm trying to run mail and dns on one machine, but under different IP's.
>I've put the IP Secondary Addresses file on the machine, and I can ping it
>and check it fine from my end. However the delegation won't go through
>because it's timing out from their end on the secondary IP.
>
>I can see the server fine from my end, and I'm fairly certain other people
>can as well. As well as that, the primary IP is visible to them.
>
>Is there something in Quick DNS that would stop it being visible on the
>secondary IP to certain people? or is it just something at fault at their
>end?

There is in fact something specific to QuickDNS Pro that means that
some people can't see it on the secondary IP address. It's the fact
that QuickDNS Pro doesn't support multiple IP addresses. Recent
versions of Open Transport try to bolt on such support, but it is not
fully successful.
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