The ramblings of a computer geek
You’ll use DNS all day everyday, but did you know there are two different forms of DNS query, recursive and iterative. Understanding how these work ensures that you understand how clients will be using your DNS server(s) and what access they might need to external DNS servers and therefore how that would affect things like […]
More...A very short introduction into using Python and the InfoBlox Python libraries to interact with the REST API to give you a starting point for development. https://sifbaksh.com/introduction-to-infoblox-api-wapi-using-python/ The easiest approach is to use the InfoBlox-Client library in Python, it is possible to use “requests” and then parse the output, but this approach seems a bit […]
More...OpenManage Enterprise version 3.4 allows automatic discovery of servers that have iDRAC firmware version 4.00.00.00 or later. The appliance can be configured to allow these servers to automatically locate the console by querying the DNS and initiate their discovery. The instructions (and this) give the use of the TUI or manual creation for Dell Openmanage […]
More...This can be a bit tricky as it is not obvious how you add them. Follow the below: 1. Logon to the admin.dns.ja.net console, then click on the forward zone you want to add the records to e.g. mycollege.ac.uk. 2. Now click on the “Service Address” records section. 3. Now enter the settings as shown […]
More...Upon the setup of the new Windows 2008 R2 DNS servers there is a problem that the DNS lookups for external domain fail; internal domain name resolution is unaffected. Restarting the DNS server (or the whole server) resolve the problem, as does clearing the cache. When the problem is happening, an nslookup command issued for […]
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