Hello everyone!
I'm getting ready to retire an old server on the mesh network. I know the MESH doesn't use DNS perse, but is there a way for me to add a second hostname alias to a server? I want to be able to give the new server the old server's host name (in addition to the new hostname) for a period of time while some other settings are changed that allow retirement of the old host name.
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DNS Alias
Sun, 03/29/2020 - 08:29
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DNS Alias
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I have a request similar to W3VD's: I have a web server on my AREDN LAN and I'd like to use virtual servers with different
DNS names, so I'm looking to add multiple DNS aliases. I'm able to add aliases to /etc/hosts.user and
add:
addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.user
to /etc/dnsmaq.conf. That survives a reboot and works fine locally, but no other nodes see my aliases because
they are not in /var/run/hosts_olsr, at least I thinks that's why. It appears that adding the following line to LoadPlugin "olsrd_nameservice.so.0.4"
in /var/etc/olsrd.conf might do the trick:
PlParam "add-hosts" "/etc/hosts.user"
But adding that line doesn't work and doesn't survive a reboot. Is there a way to add aliases locally and have them resolve on other nodes?
Thanks,
Steve
There is a built in alias for the nodes, or the tactical name. If you add an alias for lan devices, there is risk of mesh status not displaying information correctly or failing altogether. It may not have been written to expect aliases for lan devices. This might best be an enhancement request.
Joe AE6XE
Steve AG7GN
https://github.com/aredn/aredn_ar71xx/issues
Steve
AG7GN