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OSX: Excessive NXDOMAIN response for dns-sd queries

I'm primarily in a OSX environment and I'm seeing a large number of NXDOMAIN responses from our internal DNS servers. The queries that trigger these responses are what I believe to be mDNS/Bonjour ...
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Make BIND use DHCP DNS as backup

I run BIND locally on my OS X machine, to enable wildcard Apache vhosts, which requires setting the DNS server for all network interfaces to 127.0.0.1. This works great, but means when I am on a ...
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Pointing a domain at my OSX Lion web server

I recently inherited a new Mac Pro, and I'm attempting to turn it into a full web server so I can hopefully stop paying someone else to host my sites for me. I've had limited experience messing around ...
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Mac OS X Lion BIND DNS settings for local site not working

I'm trying to set up a web app hosted on my mac in which people on my network can access via http://custom.local/ I can access it on the mac since I have set up an Apache VirtualHost and in ...
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BIND not reading /etc/hosts on MacOSX Lion

With BIND (named) enabled on an OS-X Lion iMac, DNS lookups look at /etc/hosts only after checking with BIND and hence I can't override addresses using the hosts file. BIND does not even seem to ...
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Odd entries in DNS lookup log

With BIND (named) enabled on an OS-X Lion iMac, I can get a list of queries as they occur. In the list are some very strange entries, listed below. Can anyone shed some light on these? (Note that the ...
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Make server use it's own DNS first to resolve domain names

I have a bind server setup on my mac OS lion, And I have a few domains like myproject.com point to the same server using the configurations here: Mac Os Server, how to make bind point ...
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Why can't I bind to 127.0.0.1 on Mac OS X?

I'm trying to set up a simple web server on Mac OS X, and I keep getting an error when I run bind. Here's what I'm running (this transcript uses GNU Guile, but just as a convenient interface to ...
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Reason for perpetual dynamic DNS updates?

I'm using dynamic DNS (the "adult" version from RFC 2136, not à la DynDNS), and for a while now I've been seeing my laptops with MacOS 10.6.x churning out updates about every 10 seconds. And seemingly ...
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An unsolvable DNS situation?

We are about to deploy a simple server in our small office to host the typical small office things (a mac server for email, calendar, contacts etc). We quickly run into this strange DNS problem: The ...
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Unable to bind OSX 10.5 and 10.4 to Active Directory 2008

Anyone have experience binding a 10.5+ workstation to a 2008 active directory structure. We tested this functionality in our test domain prior to upgrading and saw no issues. Now that we've upgraded ...
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BIND/Named: disabled recursion, client to use alternative servers

I'm setting up a simple DNS server (BIND/Named), which is running locally on a OSX Laptop. Its purpose is to resolve all requests for "*.laptop.example.com" to "192.168.2.2" - which is the manually ...