DNS GUI adding trailing . to zone name in publicView.conf.apple

I tried setting up the DNS on a newly installed OS X Server 10.5.1 installation. I have a working server on a Debian installation that I want to transfer to OS X Server. Server Admin seems to insist that the zone name given to the zone statement in publicView.conf.apple is a FQDN complete with trailing fullstop. This causes lookups to fail that work fine on the Debian installation. As a work-around I have manually edited publicView.conf.apple (even though I know I shouldn't) to remove the trailing fullstop in the zone name.
Am I correct in thinking that this is a bug in the DNS GUI? Or have I misunderstood something? Is there a better work around?

I am referring to the string straight after the zone statement in the view in publicView.conf.apple - so if my domain is your.fqdn.com I'd expect to see:
zone "your.fqdn.com" IN { type master; file "db.your.fqdn.com"; };
What I am seeing is:
zone "your.fqdn.com." IN { type master; file "db.your.fqdn.com."; };
The contents of the zone file are correct - I have no problem with that.

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DNS error in publicView.conf.apple

hi
I'm working on a xserve with leopard server 10.5.3.
I found un error in console log that is:
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+(org.isc.named[number] throttling reswap: will start in 10 seconds+
this is the error...
and I see it each 10 second in console log
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I am referring to the string straight after the zone statement in the view in publicView.conf.apple - so if my domain is your.fqdn.com I'd expect to see:
zone "your.fqdn.com" IN { type master; file "db.your.fqdn.com"; };
What I am seeing is:
zone "your.fqdn.com." IN { type master; file "db.your.fqdn.com."; };
The contents of the zone file are correct - I have no problem with that.

DNS GUI will not display Zone entries

Hi
I have an Apple Intel Xserve running 10.5.8
I have added hundreds of entries into our DNS using the GUI
I have just tried to add a new CNAME
Server admin then "stopped responding" - I used force quit to kill off the application
Now when I launch ServerAdmin DNS - I click on the disclosure triangle next to my zone name and nothing is displayed
If I look at /var/named/zones/db.mycompany.co.uk.zone.apple
all the entires are there
I can even see the CNAME entry I added, but this will not respond when using nslookup
although existing entries still do respond as usual
I can see nothing in the logs to indicate why this is occuring
Can anyone give me some ideas as to why this be happening and more importantly how to fix it.
I have to use the GUI because there are colleagues who work on this when i am not here and they are not familiar with the command line.
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Make a copy of the zone file and then try editing the original so tabs and carriage returns "looks the same" on the last line as on the last few lines before it. Or just try removing the last line (if the CNAME is there). In the GUI in SA shift between the DNS and some other service to "revive" it (reread the data).

DNS: Zone name vs. Host name question

My little office OSX Server setup has been working fine, but I realized my DNS setup was a little weird. I think the primary zone and first host machine record were setup during the initial install/setup process, and it doesn't seem to match what Hoffman recommends in his excellent DNS Setup guide.
My primary zone was named "files.example.com", and my server host record was also named "files.example.com". Everything seemed to work, but I realized when I wanted to add some additional hosts and aliases, I was getting something like "mail.files.example.com", when what I wanted was "www.example.com".
Hoffman, and others, recommend trashing the default zone and records, and making a new zone named "example.com", then making a machine record for the server, "files.example.com".
That makes perfect sense, except I don't understand one thing: how, with this setup, can I get the dns to cough up an ip address for hostname "example.com"? Can I make a machine record with a blank hostname, thus yielding a hostname that is the same as the zone name?
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RobertNichols wrote:
My little office OSX Server setup has been working fine, but I realized my DNS setup was a little weird. I think the primary zone and first host machine record were setup during the initial install/setup process, and it doesn't seem to match what Hoffman recommends in his excellent DNS Setup guide.
My primary zone was named "files.example.com", and my server host record was also named "files.example.com". Everything seemed to work, but I realized when I wanted to add some additional hosts and aliases, I was getting something like "mail.files.example.com", when what I wanted was "www.example.com".
Hoffman, and others, recommend trashing the default zone and records, and making a new zone named "example.com", then making a machine record for the server, "files.example.com".
That makes perfect sense, except I don't understand one thing: how, with this setup, can I get the dns to cough up an ip address for hostname "example.com"? Can I make a machine record with a blank hostname, thus yielding a hostname that is the same as the zone name?
Thanks.
Apple setup wizard creates a zonename like files.example.com i.e. the same as the host name. I totally agree with Hoffman this is wrong (and I reported it as a bug to Apple) but that is the way Apple do it until 10.7 at least.
I therefore do the same as Hoffman and trash Apple's auto-created zone and do it myself.
Note: The auto-zone format used by Apple will work and might be 'good enough' for a small simple internal only setup, but if your doing a more complex multi-server setup and especially if your going to do split-horizon DNS, it is a terrible setup.

DNS wont let me delete zone

I was trying to add a new zone to DNS. When I entered the nameserver and clicked Save, it removed the nameserver. I now cannot remove the zone from DNS. I highlight it and select remove. Once I click save it re-adds it to the list. I have went into Terminal and removed all the entries to this zone from /var/named and /var/named/zones and even rebooted the Xserve. Nothing I do will remove this zone.
Any help would be appreciated.
--Travis

The zone is probably still listed in /etc/dns/publicView.conf.apple -- in order to fully remove a zone, the entry in that file needs to be deleted along with the zone files in /var/named and /var/named/zones. I've seen the symptoms you describe when the zone is listed in publicView.conf.apple, but one or both zone files is missing. You can edit the publicView.conf.apple file by hand, but it's very format-sensitive, so be careful to remove the orphaned zone entry -- no more and no less. Also, making a backup before editing would be a good idea.

Changing DNS zone names after the fact

Over 3 months ago we started setting up our server network. After discussions with administration it was determined (at the time) that we would use and register a domain name with a .net extension. So we set up a primary server with this extension and had it registered with our ISP. We subsequently added 7 other servers to the mix and as they were installed they grabbed their names from the DNS zone we had setup *.net in our DNS zone in our primary nameserver system. It was all well the tests worked we had it all going and are moving our 130 machines (including about 60 users) over next few months (and have moved about 10 users and other machines so far.
My question is this. Back in beginning a *.org was the other option but we had problems with it and our ISP (could have been some error on our part) so we went with *.net for our domain and got that registered. Now all of a sudden as our management is wanting to move the organizational website (we are not doing that) to another service that service is tying to convince them we should have not used *.net but *.org.
The person in charge of us is strongly asking if we can go back and setup with *.org but as I understand it I cannot go in and delete my *.net DNS zone and then rename all the servers with a .org extension but as we understand it from lynda.com and other sources it appears that we probably would have to go back and reset all the machines back up by reinstalling them after I changed the first primary nameserver. And then register the new name and wait for it to propagate?
Are we wrong? Can we just go in and turn off the DNS in server admin and then change the zone name(s) to *.org and the host names of each server from *.net to *.org and restart DNS and find all to be well? As much as we can tell it appears that we would have to restart from scratch as all the documents and lynda.com imply we should have had our final domain name set and registered before we started to install and setup the primary and secondary servers?
I see some examples where it is said to make such changes something needs to be done with ipconfig and not the GUI in server admin. But again I am not sure that this will work with our primary nameserver and the 7 servers under it?
Any feedback or help about this would be appreciated. It is our preference to stay with *.net and not have to do major work as we are starting user and network migration to the new servers and hate to have have such a major setback just because one person and the web design service they want to use does not like *.net. to us it appears the horse is long out of the barn and when this was approved last fall we have gone to far to easily go back. But if it is easier to go back than we think then we are willing to try to change.
Thanks
russ

foilpan wrote:
first, what are these servers doing? are they all web servers, OD masters, simple file servers? depending on their roles, changing their names can be more or less of a problem.
The first server we set (the name server) does incoming mail, is the DNS server for local net and such. Then there is the outgoing mail server (one of 7) a web server (another of 7) and then the rest are mostly file servers for our setup.
second, work out that political stuff before making any changes. if everything's working fine as is, make a strong case for leaving things alone. if possible, estimate support costs for changing everything and troubleshooting, then see if management can justify it.
Sort of my feeling. We thought we had it all worked out but then they decided to abandon the old web site (managed by someone else but associated with the old mail/network somewhat) and have a new Web design company do it and this company complained about us having chose a .net for what reason I do not know so the administrator somehow was persuaded and had no idea of the can of worms she had opened up by changing her mind. If it is too much of a hassle and it appears so in terms of delays to move rest of organization over then I hope we can convince them.
are all these servers public facing or behind a firewall?
They are behind a firewall on a high speed cable modem ISP service (firewall is local ASTARO machine).
also, why not setup another dns zone for .org and point to the same hosts? that would allow you to use either .net or .org, for the most part. again, that depends on what these servers are doing.
We suggested that but the administrator did not like having two names we have a lot of users (volunteers and such) who are not really too savvy (the nature of free and partime help I guess) and she feels they will be confused by two extensions for network, mail and web. It sure does not bother me (I have about 8 email addresses for example now .
post more details without the political background and what the end result should be, and we'll be able to add more here.
Ok basically we want to know with the following:
1) main nameserver (the first server that provides the DNS zone for local *.net and serves the incoming mail)
2) A second outgoing SMTP server to split load and do outgoing work...
3) A third webserver doing all the web services (blog, wicki, and such)
4) 4 file servers that are going to provide a local file server for our 4 main departments
5) A final test server we are testing other things with-- so total of 8 servers.
6) 8 Users out of 60 now on the network with their personal desktops or laptop machines, and a few printers and other devices all on new network.
There are a total of 130 macs and pc's in our organization that will all eventually be on this new network with the above.
Basically we are wondering if the main (first) DNS and incoming mail sever, and the 7 other (web, SMTP out, and file server machines) will have to be set back up from reinstall if we are to make the change from the *.net zone we have now to a *.org one?
Any other details that would be of help?
Thanks
Russ
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What is the trick in adding a "secondary zone" to my DNS server

Hello,
I am having a hard time adding a secondary zone to my dns server. I followed the instructions carefully but I still get the "refuse" on my zone transfer. Do I need to go to the "NIC" of my interface card and make the primary DNS
as the server itself and the secondary DNS the IP of the "remote" DNS server?
Also, do I need to start configuring the "reverse Lookup zone" (before even starting to add a "secondary zone" and perform a -ZONE -TRANSFER), and add first the "a" record of the other (remote) DNS server?
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Teapaq Long.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DNS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 6525
Date:  11/10/2014
Time:  2:07:21 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: REM-LAB-2K3.leftremote.com
Description:
A zone transfer request for the secondary zone localright.com was refused by
the master DNS server at 192.168.77.92. Check the zone at the master server
192.168.77.92 to verify that zone transfer is enabled to this server. To do
so, use the DNS console, and select master server 192.168.77.92 as the appli
cable server, then in secondary zone localright.com Properties,view the set-
tings on the Zone Transfers tab. Based on the settings you choose, make any
configuration adjustments there (or possibly in the Name Servers tab) so that
a zone transfer can be made to this server.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/
fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DNS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 6525
Date:  11/10/2014
Time:  12:03:18 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: LOC-LAB-2K8.localright.com
Description:
A zone transfer request for the secondary zone leftremote.com was refused by
the master DNS server at 192.168.95.92. Check the zone at the master server
192.168.95.92 to verify that zone transfer is enabled to this server. To do
so, use the DNS console, and select master server 192.168.95.92 as the appli
cable server, then in secondary zone leftremote.com Properties,view the set-
tings on the Zone Transfers tab. Based on the settings you choose, make any
configuration adjustments there (or possibly in the Name Servers tab) so that
a zone transfer can be made to this server.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/
fwlink/events.asp.

Hi,
According to the event ID 6525, this may be caused by a refuse of zone transfer request.
In normal, the secondary DNS server just configured with a preferred DNS server as itself, the alternate DNS server is optional, it depends on your needs.
When you fill the master DNS server’s IP address when you add secondary zone in the secondary DNS server, it will prompt a warming information if you do not add a PTR record in the master DNS server in the reverse lookup zone, but this won’t affect the zone
transfer process.
Have you followed the description of event log and check to see if the master server has enabled zone transfer(Properties
of zone->Zone Transfer tab->Allow zone transfer)?
Besides, verify that the master server of the secondary zone is authoritative for the zone. Reference steps below:
1. On the secondary DNS server, open DNS manager.
2. Right-click zone, select the General tab, note the IP address of the server that is listed in
Master Servers.
3. In the console tree, right-click DNS, and then click
Connect to DNS Server.
4. Click The following computer, type the IP address of the master DNS server, and then click
OK.
5. In the console tree, expand the master DNS server, and then expand the folder that contains the zone.
Note: If the zone is not in the folder, the server is not authoritative for the zone. In this case, you must configure the secondary server to transfer the zone from the correct master server.
6. Right-click the zone, click Properties, and then click the
Name Servers tab.
7. Confirm that the secondary server is listed with the correct IP address. To correct the list, do one of the following:
If the secondary server is not in the list, click Add.
If the IP address of the secondary server is incorrect, click the server in the list, and then click
Edit.
If this problem still exits, from the event log I notice that there are 2 secondary DNS server, REM-LAB-2K3.leftremote.com and LOC-LAB-2K8.localright.com. Are they belong to different domain(leftremote.com and localrght.com) ? what the relationship between
them?
It would be helpful if you could provide the network topology. And describe the IP configuration of master DNS server and secondary DNS server.
Best Regards,
Eve Wang

Server 2008R2 with AD DNS Panel not showing any records only shows the zone name

Hi All new to the Form. We have had this new domain controller running dns for a few years now and recently I went to edit some DNS records and found them missing in the DNS console the zone names are there but nothing is under the zones just one record
for the server under our AD domain. If i do a nslookup to this server it still displays the records as it should. It is also setup to forward the zones to a secondary server which is only pulling info from this Master 2008R2 server. Any ideas where i can try
and recover the records for my Zones.
Thanks

Hi,
According to your description, there are several possible reasons resulting in the DNS records disappearing.
1. If the aging and scavenging was configured in the DNS server, scavenging can cause records to disappear. Even Windows-based computers that have statically assigned servers register their records every 24 hours. Verify if the
No-refresh and Refresh intervals are too low. For example, if these values are both less than 24 hours, then we will lose DNS records. To view the settings, right-click the zone in the DC, click
Properties, click Aging.
2. Is there a DHCP server in your environment? DNS Dynamic Update Protocol updates to existing records fail can also cause them to be deleted by the scavenging process as aged records.
Also, event logs are helpful to isolating the issues. Is there any event logs in your computer?
For more details about DNS records disappearing, please refer to the link below,
DNS Records Disappearing and DNS Auditing
http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2010/12/09/dns-records-disappearing-and-dns-auditing.aspx
Using AD Recycle Bin to restore deleted DNS zones and their contents in Windows Server 2008 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/08/12/using-ad-recycle-bin-to-restore-deleted-dns-zones-and-their-contents-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
Best Regards,
Tina

After 10 years of Mac OS X server DNS GUI wrapper still breaking configs

WHY?
Against my better judgment I used the Server Admin's DNS tool to add a zone. Next thing I know it's going and added random data from the new zone to most if not all my zone records. It's changed the SOA for all my zones to some random concatenation of the new zone's data, it's concatenated A records to NS records. I had to go in and manually repair ALL of my records.
What's so hard about creating a functional BIND wrapper?
Lesson Learned - SAVE YOURSELF HOURS OF UNNECESSARY FRUSTRATION, NEVER USE SERVER ADMIN'S DNS TOOL, NOT EVEN TO DO SOMETHING SIMPLE LIKE ADD A NEW ZONE RECORD.
**** I wouldn't use it at all if Apple hadn't removed the means to turn the **** server on and off from the command line.

Sure there are a world full of solutions out there but I've already invested time, money, and a knowledge of how things work on OS X. Seems kind of silly for you to say that I should throw the baby out with the bath water and just find the "solution that works". I have no problems with any other service I'm running, with Apache and Postfix running smoothly, since they have the first time they were configured back in 2002.
BIND on Mac OS X server works just fine when the Apple specific components and changes aren't thrown into the mix. I've been running it this way since OS X Server was released (**** I even ran BIND on "Client" for a while without any issues back before server was available) and I've mostly enjoyed 100% uptime despite those times when I was naive to think "Apple must have fixed ServerAdmin DNS. Let me just make one minor change using the GUI tool."
Is it too much for me to ask that if they can't make the tool work right then, for the love of the great and holy Admin, don't mess with it at all? Seriously if it isn't broken don't fix it. I'll happily manually config from the command line, lovingly reseting my serial numbers for each edit, the one time every couple of year that I might need to do so. Instead of releasing a tool thats only going to break your configs, don't continue to tease us with ease of use GUI apps.

Apache failover service does not start - must zone name be the same?

Hello,
When I brought online apache data service, it starts successfully, then immediately fails. So the service starts up on the other node, then fails. No clear error message.
I'm thinking of potential causes:
- Could this be b/c the local zone names are different on both nodes? However, the zone paths are the same.
- The ftp-temp hostname is defined only on the 2 nodes /etc/hosts, not in DNS. In nsswitch.conf, I have "hosts: cluster files dns".
- I have the Bin_dir property set to /opt/xampp/bin. I can start up /opt/xampp/bin/apachectl start fine. Since I'm using xampp's apache, should I NOT be using SUNW.apache, but a generic data service?
- Does the Apache service must be under SMF control? Does sun cluster stop/start date services using SMF?
I'm running Solaris 10, SC 3.2
I want to fail over the Apache service betwn the local zones (not fail over the whole zone).
Here's what I did in setting up the resource from the global zone:
jupiter # clresource create -g ftp4-acme-com-rg -t SUNW.apache -p Bin_dir=/opt/xampp/bin -p
Network_resources_used=ftptemp -p Port_list=80/tcp,443/tcp,20/tcp,21/tcp xampp-apache
The ftp4-acme-com-rg was in unmanaged state.
jupiter # clresourcegroup online -emM ftp4-acme-com-rg
In /var/adm/messages:
Nov 24 13:25:47 jupiter Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 443746 daemon.notice] resource ftptemp state on node jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 change to R_ONLINE
Nov 24 13:25:49 jupiter Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 784560 daemon.notice] resource xampp-apache status on node jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 change to R_FM_ONLINE
Nov 24 13:25:49 jupiter Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 922363 daemon.notice] resource xampp-apache status msg on node jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 change to <Completed successfully.>
At this point, I saw the virtual ip plumbed up. Also, noticed 'online' states.
Resource Groups
Group Name Node Name State Suspended
Group: ftp4-acme-com-rg
jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 Pending online No
Group: ftp4-acme-com-rg
pluto:ftp_zone Offline No
Resources --
Resource Name Node Name State Status Message
Resource: ftptemp jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 Online Online - LogicalHostname online.
Resource: ftptemp pluto:ftp_zone Offline Offline
Resource: xampp-apache jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 Starting Online - Completed successfully.
Resource: xampp-apache pluto:ftp_zone Offline Offline
The next message occurs 5 minutes later:
Nov 24 13:30:52 jupiter Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 764140 daemon.error] Method <apache_svc_start> on resource <xampp-apache>, resource group <ftp4-acme-com-rg>, node <jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2>: Timeout.
Nov 24 13:30:52 jupiter Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 443746 daemon.notice] resource xampp-apache state on node jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 change to R_START_FAILED
Nov 24 13:30:52 jupiter Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 529407 daemon.notice] resource group ftp4-acme-com-rg state on node jupiter:ftp-acme-zone2 change to RG_PENDING_OFF_START_FAILED
Same messages on the 2nd node.
This is the final status:
-- Resources --
Resource Name Node Name State Status Message
Resource: ftptemp jupiter:*ftp-acme-zone2* Offline Offline - LogicalHostname offline.
Resource: ftptemp pluto:*ftp_zone* Offline Offline - LogicalHostname offline.
Resource: xampp-apache jupiter:*ftp-acme-zone2* Offline Offline - Successfully stopped Apache Web Server.
Resource: xampp-apache pluto:*ftp_zone* Offline Offline - Successfully stopped Apache Web Server.
Any input would be appreciated.
Edited by: onetree on Nov 24, 2008 9:38 PM
Edited by: onetree on Nov 24, 2008 10:23 PM

Hi,
Did you eventually find the root cause/solution to this problem? I got into the same thing on my setup where I created 2 zones on a solaris 10 node. The apache on any of the 2 zones just dont seem to start up. In the end clrg failed after a few attempts on both zones. The time out is about 5 min after apache_svc_start was launched. I grepped httpd and no such process was launched. It does not like it is monitor issue. Logicalhost resource is started ok. so I am not sure if there is any security or access issue involed for apache_svc_start.
Mar 6 16:03:05 miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com Cluster.RGM.global.rgmd: [ID 224900 daemon.notice] launching method
<apache_svc_start> for resource <apache-res>, resource group <apache-rg>, node <miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com:ho
st1>, timeout <300> seconds
Mar 6 16:03:05 miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com Cluster.RGM.global.rgmd: [ID 784560 daemon.notice] resource apache-
res status on node miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com:host1 change to R_FM_UNKNOWN
Mar 6 16:03:05 miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com Cluster.RGM.global.rgmd: [ID 922363 daemon.notice] resource apache-
res status msg on node miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com:host1 change to <Starting>
Mar 6 16:08:07 miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com Cluster.RGM.global.rgmd: [ID 764140 daemon.error] Method <apache_sv
c_start> on resource <apache-res>, resource group <apache-rg>, node <miwok.nms.fnc.fujitsu.com:host1>: Timeou
t.
One qestion is: do I have to install 3 separate copies of apache on global/zone1/zone2? I just had the default copy under /usr/apache.
Any info would be appreciated.
Mike

Just updated my iphone. Now I can se I have two? iCloud accounts? One of them appears on my phone, and I have forgotten the password. When I try to add the other account, I get the message that this account is already added, but with the name of the first

Just updated my iphone. Now I can se I have two! iCloud accounts? One of them appears on my phone, and I have forgotten the password. When I try to add the other account, I get the message that this account is already added, but with the name of the first account where there is no available password. I have tried several times to reset the password, bun I don't get the information I need - I have no access to email. What can I do?

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I have tried as you suggested, and when opening the "purchased" apps some have the icloud logo next to them, but I only have "OPEN" against "Find My iPhone". When opening it up, it goes through the same routine; needs to be updated before proceeding, and wouldn't update because I don't have IOS8.
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My answer is very simple: How can I (command or file) to know Global zone name within Non-Global zone? zoneadm command with all its options don�t work fine to me for this information. Thanks a lot for any idea with my question. Regards.

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Sort order changes when adding a phonetic last name?

I have my contacts sorted and displayed by first name. If I add a phonetic last name to a contact, it changes the order of that person to the top of list. Why wouldn't it leave them in the first name alphabetic order?

Ok this is what I'm doing...
My last name is spelled with "liter."
Siri pronounces that like "a 2 liter of soda."
So I've added the phonetic last name field on the contact card to help her pronounce it like "lighter."
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My iMac has extra numbers added to its share name. e.g Ali's iMac 49886

I am using Mountain lion, and my computer name keeps changing.
It keeps saying that it is because the name is already in use on the network, but that is not the case.
I use an airport extreme base station.
I am only sing the Ethernet port to connect to the network and wifi turned off.
How do I stop these numbers from adding to the computer name.
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Here is just a sugestion, maybe the airport Extreme thinks that your computer is actually connected twice and hasnt let go of the lease of the IP address. On the old version of Airport Utility you could view attached devices the new one doesnt let you do this but here is a link to the old version.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1343156
Linc Davis is right, the user accounts have nothing to do with your machine being names twice. I personally think that your name is just stuck somewhere on the network and the boxes all need flushing.
To do this just simply go round and switch everything off and switch it all back on again and the leases should be renewed.
This sometimes happens when you move from AP to AP.
Thank you
JC

Conflicting time zone names

I receive invitations from other calendaring programs, e.g. Lotus Notes, and have noticed that they use time zone names that are unknown to iCal. I received an invite today that showed up in my calendar at 10:00 CDT. My calendar time zone is set to America/Chicago.
When I looked at the .ics file being imported, the time zone name was "Eastern" and the time of the event was 100000. Apparently iCal didn't recognize "Eastern" as the name of the time zone. It should have shown up on my calendar at 09:00. I went in and changed the time zone in the .ics file to "US/Eastern" which is an iCal option and it entered correctly into my calendar.
Is there a standard set of time zone names or does every program use their own? If nothing else, a message stating that the time zone wasn't recognized and was assumed to be the same as the iCal calendar would help prevent missed conference calls, etc.
Thanks for any input.
Mark G.

It is hard to believe that we 'put a man on the moon' four decades ago, but haven't adopted a standardized method for interchanging event data!
As you point out, it may be a very long time before major organizations upgrade and adopt the CalDAV standard, so this issue may be with us for a long time. As someone who cut his teeth on mainframe processing more than thirty years ago, I understand the glacial movement of major information technology operations, and how challenging and difficult such transitions can be.
I believe that it is incumbent upon major players like Novell and Microsoft to bring their existing code into the 21st century, but it seems an unlikely outcome, as the typical reaction on their part is to encourage an organization to perform a complete overhaul, rather than have the publisher patch existing code.

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