Service Dependencies

[Tony Earnshaw]

fre, 27.05.2005 kl. 14.26 skrev Christopher N. Carroll:

[...]

> > Is DNS stable or do you have DNS being updated by DHCP?
> > That could be a pain if dhcp is unstable.
> >
> > Are the servers you are checking based on dhcp clients?
> >
> >
> 
> We're having a big DNS problem in which IPs just magically disappear 
> from our machines. I spend most of my time rebooting windows boxes (DHCP 
> enabled) that lose their configurations. When I say lose their 
> configurations I mean they have an IP, but our nameservers sure don't 
> have a corresponding IP for them.
> 
> I am only checking to see if ping and ssh are working (yeah, I have a 
> minimal check on my windows machines for now). I end up getting a 
> CRITICAL on ping *and* ssh. It's anonying and I need to fix it. Also in 
> the future my linux hosts that depend on say NFS homeareas need not 
> annoy/spam me with email if our NFS server is done. That make sense?
> 
> I'm not sure if I should be using parent and child or service dependencies.

This is all very woolly and disjointed. You didn't answer Subhendu's
question: have you enabled the DHCP server to automatically update your
DNS server each time it assigns an IP address? Don't know what you're
using as software for these two, but this is possible with ISC's DHCP
and Bind servers.

--Tonni

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