AFP548 - Topic: Tiger DNS hosed

This topic has 6 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 19 years, 7 months ago by AaronAdams.

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May 27, 2005 at 8:44 pm #361818

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Is the inability to add multiple A records in Server Admin in Tiger a feature or a bug?

I can´t belive how they messed Tiger DNS up….

May 28, 2005 at 12:08 am #361819

xdavid
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I have not moved to Tiger server yet, and I don;t know why Apple would have cut down the GUI functions, but…

A text based DNS via Terminal editing must be a pretty basic bit of knowledge for a server administrator? Beyond the absolute basic which I presume the start-up “wizard” does.

Yes, it’s something extra to learn but a simple DNS is really pretty basic, isn’t it? If you already know what an ‘A’ record is then you should know how to define it… No?

May 28, 2005 at 12:14 am #361820

xdavid
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Sorry, didn’t mean to have so many question marks in last post ! 🙂

-david

May 30, 2005 at 8:21 am #361826

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Yeah i have handcoded all the zonefiles so it´s not a big deal but it gets a bit of a pain to do it with 80 domains. It would be nice to see the DNS GUI actually being improved whe a update is released, not the other way around.

July 11, 2005 at 1:31 am #362277

OsX4me
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I agree, the GUI for DNS in 10.4 is rather Microsoftian, in how silly and non-standard it is. “Do it our way, even though it makes no sense,” and then it barely works at all.

Configuring by hand is needed anyway, for DNS in a NAT environment… no way to enter Forwarders info in the GUI.

Did it by hand, it works.

September 9, 2005 at 2:43 pm #363190

PoserAdmin
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Yeah, I wish I knew the ‘basics’ of DNS….
Pather server DNS was great, even I could figure it out.
But Tiger server broke the working DNS records from Panther when I launched the Tiger Admin Tool and tried to edit them. Worse yet, I had the Tiger Admin tool on my laptop, tried to edit my Panther serverDNS record (add one) and it broke that/ will not properly add the new record (even when I got directly to the server and use the original Panther Admin tool).

Anyone know if Apple is going to fix this??

September 9, 2005 at 4:24 pm #363193

AaronAdams
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I’ve complained long and loud to Apple about the sheer awfulness that is the Tiger DNS GUI and they told me to get used to it. What they told me, in almost these words, is that the GUI is intended for people with the simplest DNS needs. Everyone else can learn BIND. I responded that the ability to edit such things in the GUI without needing to know the details of BIND was a big selling point for OS X server, and that they’re enforcing a false dichotomy by assuming you either have very simple needs, or you’re a BIND expert. They closed my bug report without responding.

So now you know.
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