[Planetlab-devel] bootcd_v3 for wireless/mesh myplc

[Chan, Winson C]

Actually, I will be using DHCP for the wireless network. I'm making the
boot server be a dhcp server as well.  And when I select DHCP at the PLC
website, the primary DNS entries are grey out.  So, do I still need to
worry about name resolution for the nodes?


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc E. Fiuczynski [mailto:mef at CS.Princeton.EDU] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:31 PM
To: Bound, Jim; Chan, Winson C; devel at lists.planet-lab.org
Subject: RE: [Planetlab-devel] bootcd_v3 for wireless/mesh myplc

Hi Jim,

>But below it is not wise to hardcode IP addresses ever.

True.  It should be provided by DHCP, but in this case I don't believe
there
is a DHCP server running.  For those environements, we use static IP
addresses.

Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bound, Jim [mailto:Jim.Bound at hp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:21 PM
> To: Marc E. Fiuczynski; Chan, Winson C; devel at lists.planet-lab.org
> Subject: RE: [Planetlab-devel] bootcd_v3 for wireless/mesh myplc
>
>
> Folks, few key points I want to respond to on vserver and IP addresses
> still not clear. But below it is not wise to hardcode IP addresses
ever.
>
> My Two Cents,
> /jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: devel-bounces at planet-lab.org
> > [mailto:devel-bounces at planet-lab.org] On Behalf Of Marc E.
Fiuczynski
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 4:16 PM
> > To: Chan, Winson C; devel at lists.planet-lab.org
> > Subject: RE: [Planetlab-devel] bootcd_v3 for wireless/mesh myplc
> >
> > > Is there a dependency to resolve the hostname of the boot
> > server?  I
> > > enabled the DNS server that comes with myplc.  Do I need to update
> > > /etc/resolv.conf on nodes to include where the primary DNS
> > server is
> > > located?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > Or is this automatically configured during the boot process by
some
> > > scripts in the boot CD?
> >
> > When you add a node to your private MyPLC, you'll need to
> > make sure that its DNS 1 entry points at the IP address of
> > your MyPLC box. If you've set that up correctly, then the
> > generated config file for the node should have such a DNS
> > record in it with the appropriate ip address.  This is what
> > the node uses to set up its /etc/resolv.conf etc.
> >
> > Marc
> >
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