Search Again: Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, August 10, 2001 Time: 2:57:02 pm At 12:00 PM -0700 8/10/01, Neil Ticktin wrote: >Chris, > >At 3:47 PM -0800 12/7/00, Men & Mice Support wrote: > >As far as I know, this has not been addressed. We don't officially > >support use of QuickDNS on a machine with multiple addresses. > >Out of curiosity, why not? Because QuickDNS isn't designed for it. Understand, QuickDNS uses the MacTCP interface in Open Transport, not the native TCP/IP interface. Therefore, it knows nothing about secondary IP addresses. In order to change this, we'd have to rewrite pretty much the entire server. We're not planning to do that. >We are installing our second Internet connection right now so that >we have two. I'd like to be able to renumber the QuickDNS server >with THREE addresses: > >Address 1: IP within Primary Net Connection Addr Space >Address 2: IP within Secondary Net Connection Addr Space >Address 3: IP within private network Addr Space (e.g., 10.x.x.x) You should be able to accomplish this with IPNetRouter or something similar. You just want to force QuickDNS to send its responses through the IPNetRouter machine. >1/2 are so that we can easily switch back and forth during an >outage. 3 is so that the DHCP and other LAN configs never have to >be changed. > >I find that when QuickDNS has two addresses on the same machine, >that machine becomes very slow, and weird things will happen >throughout the network -- timeouts, etc... Actually, I hadn't heard that, nor does that match my experience. It should either work or not work. Maybe what was being described to you was where QuickDNS was not working. After 15 seconds or so, it's possible for the Mac OS' built-in resolver to look things up itself. >Isn't this something that would be fairly easy to support? I'm sure >that there are people that want it ... I know we do, and I know of >at least a few more close to us that do as well. The theory is, people should be switching to Mac OS X relatively soon, and it isn't worth it to us to rewrite an end-of-life application. QuickDNS Server for Mac OS X doesn't have this problem, since it's based on the Bind codebase. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Gary Gleason on Dec 7, 2000 at 9:40:34 am Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Men & Mice Support on Dec 7, 2000 at 3:55:50 pm Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Neil Ticktin on Aug 10, 2001 at 1:08:12 pm Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Neil Ticktin on Aug 10, 2001 at 2:28:03 pm Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Men & Mice Support on Aug 10, 2001 at 2:57:02 pm Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Jerry Pasker on Aug 13, 2001 at 11:49:14 am Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Men & Mice Support on Aug 13, 2001 at 8:57:34 pm Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Barry Cotter on Oct 16, 2001 at 5:02:44 pm Re: Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Men & Mice Support on Oct 16, 2001 at 6:29:54 pm