Search Again: Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS From: Ron Smith Date: Friday, December 19, 2003 Time: 1:31:15 am There is a problem with the DHCP in the Airport. I'm experiencing the same on a a Lan which had mixed fixed and DHCP ips. I don't think the problem is QuickDNS. On Dec 18, 2003, at 1:39 PM, System Administrator wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone else here has experienced the following > issue... > > I upgraded my small server (G4 tower, with Airport card), to Mac OS > 10.3 (clean install), and was able to use it as a software Airport > base station. This was done in the usual fashion by utilizing the > "sharing" system preference. > > Afterwards, I installed QuickDNS 4.6, and now when I try to start > internet sharing, it appears to try to start, but ultimately fails. I > have confirmed again that internet sharing seems to work before a QDNS > install, but not afterwards. It appears in particular that the DHCP > server that operates as part of the software base station fails to > start up. > > I'm still in the early stages of investigation, but here is what I > have found so far. Apparently, internet sharing in Panther interacts > with several other system components, including "named". There may be > other dns components that are affected, but I haven't gotten very far > yet in isolating these. If this is the case, I'm guessing that when I > install QDNS, I'm overwriting or changing some file or files that are > used by internet sharing in setting up the DHCP capabilities of the > software base station. > > I'm going to continue to investigate, but was wondering if anyone has > had any similar experiences, and might be willing to share what they > have done to either investigate or solve this issue. In particular, is > it possible to do a custom installation of QuickDNS that would avoid > this problem? > > Thanks, > > > > matt > > > Kindest regards, Ron "What shall we do? What shall we do?" he cried, "Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" - Bilbo Baggins The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/returnoftheking/trailer_large.html

Messages In This Thread: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by System Administrator on Dec 18, 2003 at 10:40:03 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Ron Smith on Dec 19, 2003 at 1:31:15 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by System Administrator on Dec 19, 2003 at 4:24:01 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by mattb on Dec 19, 2003 at 10:31:50 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Dec 22, 2003 at 10:05:05 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 22, 2003 at 10:38:43 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 22, 2003 at 11:21:16 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 22, 2003 at 5:26:48 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 22, 2003 at 6:08:36 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 22, 2003 at 11:20:20 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 23, 2003 at 8:59:19 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 23, 2003 at 12:01:08 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 23, 2003 at 4:43:54 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 27, 2003 at 12:07:21 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 27, 2003 at 5:57:53 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 12:41:13 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:06:31 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:29:57 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:41:06 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 3:15:46 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 6:49:52 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 29, 2003 at 10:51:25 pm