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RE: new network with dedicated dhcp/dns
As wj says, it will be fine.  It's a standard configuration for small Windows AD networks, because Active Directory absolutely requires dynamic DNS updates.  You will have to decide whether you want the DNS server to handle recursion (actually resolve things itself) or maintain a valid list of forwarders (Your ISP's DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 etc.), but neither is particularly hard to set up.

As wj says again, why not just let the OS X server do it?  It could do your web serving too.  You would have to have thousands (or more likely tens of thousands) of clients to justify dedicated hardware for DNS/DHCP, so separating these functions is quite unnecessary -- unless you are just doing it for experimental and learning purposes.

Lastly, I recommend using a different RFC 1918 address block than the ridiculously common 192.168.1.*.  The problem with that is everybody uses it and if at any point you want to VPN to somebody else's network or do something similar, that is your best bet for a routing conflict.
01-20-2010 12:58 AM
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new network with dedicated dhcp/dns - by Jarrod on 01-19-2010 at 11:14 PM
RE: new network with dedicated dhcp/dns - by wj on 01-19-2010 at 11:59 PM
RE: new network with dedicated dhcp/dns - by Adeptus on 01-20-2010 at 12:58 AM
RE: new network with dedicated dhcp/dns - by Jarrod on 01-20-2010 at 03:03 AM


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