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Also for me focusing on non-profits, I like to take something that is possibly not the "best or beast setup" and figure out how can I make it better. In my head with virtualization th,ere is almost 0 excuses with every non-profit in america isn't virtualized to go along with our other allotments.
I can do more with a Dell Power Edge 710 and a few dollars spent on networking gear, ram than I could have imagined years ago. I was definitely a late adopter to virtualization. I wish had I took the time when I worked enterprise, I could have made some smart decisions to have our company save some $.
But nothing makes me more happy than knowing I am saving our non profit and our clients $ by the more I can learn.
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Good point it is VyOS.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@anthonyh said in Home Network Setup:
2 vCPUS and 1G RAM which is more than plenty for the role in my environment.
1vCPU and 512MB should do that fine.
You're probably right.
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@krisleslie said in Home Network Setup:
Also for me focusing on non-profits, I like to take something that is possibly not the "best or beast setup" and figure out how can I make it better. In my head with virtualization th,ere is almost 0 excuses with every non-profit in america isn't virtualized to go along with our other allotments.
I can do more with a Dell Power Edge 710 and a few dollars spent on networking gear, ram than I could have imagined years ago. I was definitely a late adopter to virtualization. I wish had I took the time when I worked enterprise, I could have made some smart decisions to have our company save some $.
But nothing makes me more happy than knowing I am saving our non profit and our clients $ by the more I can learn.
that drives me each day.That's why Ubiquiti is perfect. You can do even more with your time for them instead of spending lots of resources on pfSense when you can have something better for a few bucks.
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Any value to trying to use DNS/DHCP for Windows domains on something other than Windows? It drops the need for Windows CALs for DNS/DHCP use.
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
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@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
Any value to trying to use DNS/DHCP for Windows domains on something other than Windows? It drops the need for Windows CALs for DNS/DHCP use.
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
If the environment is utilizing Active Directory I think sticking with with MS DNS is best (I'm sure there are ways around it if you replicate the various DNS records AD creates, but IMO it may be more headache than it's worth). However, you can use other DHCP solutions. We do not use MS DHCP and have no issues.
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@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
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This is overkill but it’s me trying to run my house like a real system. I have dual CentOS BIND DNS servers and a CentOS DHCP server. The DHCP server is running on KVM, DNS servers are on OpenStack. Ansible updates one DNS server, reboots it, then moves to the other and does the same. It does that every night. DNS and DHCP are great practice for automation. All of my stuff (home and work) uses reservations so I just add a server to my dictionary and it’s created by Ansible in both DNS and DHCP at the same time.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
DDNS yes, but for internal. Windows DNS is dynamic DNS, as machines come and go from the network, they join and DNS, and update IP if changed.
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@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
DDNS yes, but for internal. Windows DNS is dynamic DNS, as machines come and go from the network, they join and DNS, and update IP if changed.
Oh, that's not Dynanic DNS as I know the term. That's just DHCP based automation.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
DDNS yes, but for internal. Windows DNS is dynamic DNS, as machines come and go from the network, they join and DNS, and update IP if changed.
Oh, that's not Dynanic DNS as I know the term. That's just DHCP based automation.
It can use DHCP, but doesn't have to, at least as I understand it.
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@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
DDNS yes, but for internal. Windows DNS is dynamic DNS, as machines come and go from the network, they join and DNS, and update IP if changed.
Oh, that's not Dynanic DNS as I know the term. That's just DHCP based automation.
It can use DHCP, but doesn't have to, at least as I understand it.
Without DHCP, where would the info come from?
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771255(v=ws.11).aspx
Domain Name System (DNS) client computers can use dynamic update to register and dynamically update their resource records with a DNS server whenever changes occur. This reduces the need for manual administration of zone records, especially for clients that frequently move or change locations and use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to obtain an IP address.
The DNS Client service and the DNS Server service support the use of dynamic updates, as described in Request for Comments (RFC) 2136, "Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System."
By default, computers that are statically configured for TCP/IP attempt to dynamically register host (A) resource records and pointer (PTR) resource records for IP addresses that are configured and used by their installed network connections. By default, all computers register records based on their fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
I know this is old, but I'm not aware of this changing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
For DNS and DHCP, I'd either replace the Spectrum router entirely with an EdgeRouter Lite (~$95 from Amazon) and do it all there to keep things nice and simple, or run a Linux VM, probably Fedora or CentOS, to do this. Keep it simple. Everything does DHCP and DHS, there is no upside to having something special for that.
VyOS is does a awesome job has a router.
There’s even a nice howto setup too.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
DDNS yes, but for internal. Windows DNS is dynamic DNS, as machines come and go from the network, they join and DNS, and update IP if changed.
Oh, that's not Dynanic DNS as I know the term. That's just DHCP based automation.
It can use DHCP, but doesn't have to, at least as I understand it.
Without DHCP, where would the info come from?
Windows also has the option to only allow secure updates. To allow all devices to register you will have to choose nonsecure dynamic updates. -
@black3dynamite said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
For DNS and DHCP, I'd either replace the Spectrum router entirely with an EdgeRouter Lite (~$95 from Amazon) and do it all there to keep things nice and simple, or run a Linux VM, probably Fedora or CentOS, to do this. Keep it simple. Everything does DHCP and DHS, there is no upside to having something special for that.
VyOS is does a awesome job has a router.
There’s even a nice howto setup too.
https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/User_GuideI believe that @scottalanmiller setup a VyOS system on a box in front of the Scale system that NTG has at Colocation America. And then it subsequently blew up. Cannot recall him ever posting a root cause.
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@jaredbusch said in Home Network Setup:
@black3dynamite said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
For DNS and DHCP, I'd either replace the Spectrum router entirely with an EdgeRouter Lite (~$95 from Amazon) and do it all there to keep things nice and simple, or run a Linux VM, probably Fedora or CentOS, to do this. Keep it simple. Everything does DHCP and DHS, there is no upside to having something special for that.
VyOS is does a awesome job has a router.
There’s even a nice howto setup too.
https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/User_GuideI believe that @scottalanmiller setup a VyOS system on a box in front of the Scale system that NTG has at Colocation America. And then it subsequently blew up. Cannot recall him ever posting a root cause.
Oh that's easy, root cause is the drives died
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@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
So now that we know that Windows can self register with DDNS, thoughts on moving away from Windows based DHCP and DNS for internal networks? Any chance UNBT gear can or ever would support this?
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@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
So now that we know that Windows can self register with DDNS, thoughts on moving away from Windows based DHCP and DNS for internal networks? Any chance UNBT gear can or ever would support this?
Umm WTF? Windows does not self register DDNS. Where did that come from?
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@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Home Network Setup:
@dashrender said in Home Network Setup:
If so, does UBNT based gear support dynamic DNS?
DDNS? Like for external use?
So now that we know that Windows can self register with DDNS, thoughts on moving away from Windows based DHCP and DNS for internal networks? Any chance UNBT gear can or ever would support this?
Let's back up. Why would you want this? What's the goal here?
