Mac OS-X Multihoming & QuickDNS Pro 3.5

Re: Mac OS-X Multihoming & QuickDNS Pro 3.5

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At 2:52 PM -0500 9/5/01, dns wrote:
>I have just installed QuickDNS Pro 3.5 on OS-X, and I have two related
>questions:
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>1. Is there any method of moving zones from QuickDNS Pro under OS-8/9 to
>OS-X, that is easier than exporting each zone and reimporting it using
>Manager? Can I just place the old OS-8/9 zone files somewhere on OS-X?
>It would appear not, as the zone file names cannot be found by Sherlock
>when I do import them.

There's a pair of AppleScripts included with QuickDNS Manager that
will (a) export all of your zones and (b) import all of your zones.
These two scripts make it very easy to migrate data to the new
platform. They're called "Export Server Configuration" and "Import
Server Configuration", respectively.

>2. I am having difficulty implementing multihoming on the built-in
>Ethernet of the G3. I want to have QuickDNS Pro Server on its own IP
>address, the IP address of the authoritative name server.
>
>I have set up 5 IP address connections using Network System Preferences
>of OS.10.0.4 (Build 4Q12). I configured the first one using the Built In
>Ethernet port, then duplicated it under the Advanced option, changing the
>4th octet of the IP address each time. Only the first address pings,
>regardless of what order I drag the configurations into. I have disabled
>the modem port which is not is use. Any ideas? IP Secondary addressing on
>OS-8/9 worked fine on the same box.
>
>I opened case number 9524863 with Apple Care, but they said the Advanced
>Features of the Network Systems Preference are not supported by Apple.

That's right, because they know that it doesn't work right. You can't
set up multiple IP addresses in the Network applet of System
Preferences and have it work. It can be done on the command line, or
it can be done using scripts in '/System/Library/StartupItems'.

I haven't done this myself, so I won't provide explicit instructions
- this is Apple's problem, not M&M's - but it involves use of
'ifconfig', somewhere, somehow. I would probably use the StartupItems
scripts, myself. You could even create a new startup item, using
BBEdit (or any other text editor). Just make sure it gets scheduled
to execute before QuickDNS.
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