[234] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Boot-P Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard E. Brown)
Thu Apr 14 13:38:37 1994
Date: 14 Apr 94 12:10:45 EDT
From: Richard.E.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Richard E. Brown)
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Cc: Denis.C.Devlin@Dartmouth.EDU (Denis C. Devlin),
Richard.E.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Richard E. Brown),
David.M.Fisher@Dartmouth.EDU (David M. Fisher)
--- Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu (Mike!) wrote:
What about students who are running services dependant on a stable IP
address? The most acceptable example I can think of would be a WWW or
Gopher server. There are certainly less legitimate but no less likely
examples of where a student would want a guaranteed unchanging IP
address...
--- end of quoted material ---
At Dartmouth, we've designed NameD*tective, a client/server system to address
just this issue. Like other schools, we use MacIP addressing to assign
(changing) IP addresses to students. Anyone who wants to advertise a resource
on the Internet simply uses NameD*tective (and the corresponding Control
Panel called NameD*Responder). I've appended the READ ME file below...
These programs are alpha test versions, but they've been in use for a couple
months now. We're looking for feedback on the program.
You can get copies of NameD*tective via anonymous FTP from our CD-Changer. It
is a Mac using MacIP addressing and NameD*tective (of course). The DNS name
is
cd-changer.kiewit.atzone.dartmouth.edu
Look in the NameD-tective directory, or use the URL below:
ftp://cd-changer.kiewit.atzone.dartmouth.edu//NameD-tective
Rich Brown E-Mail: richard.e.brown@dartmouth.edu
Dave Fisher E-mail: david.fisher@dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College
Kiewit Computer Center Telephone: 603/646-3648
Hanover, NH 03755-3523 USA Fax: 603/646-2810
------ ReadMe file --------
About NameD*tective and NameD*Responder
15 Feb 94
NameD*tective and NameD*Responder work together to give your Mac a fixed
Domain Name System name, without entering the name (and its IP address) into
a host table. This is most useful if you use MacTCP with "Server" address
assignment: even though your IP address changes from day-to-day, your DNS
Name will remain constant.
The NameD*Responder control panel has extensive help which gives more
information including installation instructions, protocol details, and
shareware information.
This folder contains:
About NameD*tective - this document
NameD*tective 1.0a4 - the DNS sub-domain server
NameD*Responder 1.0a4 - a control panel that registers the DNS name
of your choosing
NameD*tective 1.0a4.sit - the above three files, in a StuffIt archive
These programs are copyright (c) 1994, Trustees of Dartmouth College. They
were written by Rich Brown and Dave Fisher, who may be reached at:
richard.e.brown@dartmouth
david.fisher@dartmouth.edu
