Hosted dns-sd for bonjour over wan

Has anyone found a company that will host a dns domain that supports dns-sd registration..
I have installed the bonjour pref pane and would love to have someone manage a dns server that I can have a domain and register my services. For example, I would like to be able to access my airdisks at work and do so via bonjour and not use something like dyndns.org
I know how to work around this, but it would be nice to pay $20 a year for a domain or subdomain that supports bonjour wan service registration

As I mentioned above, dyndns is not the optimal solution. dnydns.org does not support dns service discovery.
http://www.dns-sd.org/
Normal link-local bonjour uses multicast dns to do service discovery. (eg. what airdisks are available on this network). Bonjour over the WAN relies on having a dns server configured with some apple extensions that let applications "register" their services with a central dns server that then keeps track of different service types. Usually this registration is controlled via simple authentication (username/password). Then, I would configure the bonjour pref pane (http://www.dns-sd.org/ClientSetup.html) to register my hosts services (itunes shared library, ichat bonjour, ssh server, web server, etc) in a specific domain. Then when another client that is configured correctly fires up an application that supports bonjour (like itunes) not only will it see itunes shares on the same subnet, but it should also see ones that are in bonjour dns-sd/wan domains that my host is configured to query.
You can only register services in one domain, but you can query multiple domains.
So, what I want is to have something like dyndns.org, but would let me use it to register my services (like my airport extreme connected printers and airdisk) so that when I am at work, I can use the airport disk utility menu bar item to mount my drives from home at work.

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Hi, I was hoping to get some advice on best practice for a particular scenario, any input would be appreciated :-)
Scenario
We have two sites, site "A" and site "B".
We have a server at both site A and B.
Site A is our primary location - all clients / server reside on a LAN - management is very straight forward.
Site B however, is located over 40 minutes away and is accessible via a WAN.
I use a combination of tools for management at site A, including DeployStudio, ARD and OS X Server 10.9, however I now have to start managing both sites.
1) When using ARD at site A, is it possible to direct clients (at site B) to a local repository, rather than transferring huge packages over the WAN - which seems to be exceptionally unreliable?
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ARD itself does not have any repository at all not even for a single site. It works by you browsing for and pushing the package. As has been pointed out this does not work well for a multi-site situation.
For a multi-site situation your options would be to use -
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Simian,
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Simian can be considered an extension of Munki with more support for a geographically distributed setup.
Casper can have multiple JDS servers and the master can feed packages to additional JDS server with at least one being located at each site. I feel Casper would be the easiest to get running but unlike the others it is not free.
DeployStudio is something else entirely but it also has the ability to have a master server and slaves that sync to it.

Help configure DNS Enabler for Bonjour discovery

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I have a MacBook with Snow Leopard acting as a VPN server configured by the iVPN software.
The shares on the local network can I connect to using Command-K, but I would like to have Bonjour to have it advertise all the shares.
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Hi,
have you figured it out yet? Otherwise you might want to try the Home-Sharing service home-sharing.tcp, which to my knowledge also runs through port 3689?
I am still in the first stage of your post. I am trying to get AFP to work through VPN with DNS-Enabler. No success so far. Could you be so kind to post your exact settings?
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Working on a project for storing data across geographically dispersed locations, I need to be able to estimate how much bandwidth that will be required to do remote mirroring. I assume the initial data has been loaded on my backup servers at the 2 locations but I need to have a fair idea of how much bandwidth remote mirroring will translate to for approx 1Gb change in my main site server data.
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The amount of bandwidth required will be a function of two details. 1) what is the timeframe that the change takes place over? ie. does the 1gb change happen in 1 hr, 1 day, or 1 week? and 2) Since this remote mirroring will be async, how much delta between the databases are you willing to allow? ie. can the remote be 1 min out of sync, 10 min out of sync, or more? Since most db work is bursty, if we are given longer periods to sync the data, we can use a lower bw link.
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Design a network for voip over wan

Hi all,
I need your valuable suggestions how to design a network of voip using voip.
Suppose there is a Site A and Site B and you are using different service providers and creating different vlans in each site for voice and data.Lets say it like vlan50 for voice and vlan 51 for data and in the other site vlan 100 for voice and vlan101 for data.How do you give the priority for voice packets while sending in the network and basically please explain the needed hardware that you use for this design (like what are the equipments ,media server gateway,dhcp server,ethernet switch , voip phones etc..).
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Hi Rajendra,
Very open query but I will see how much I can give inputs.
Since you have only two site. you can go for CME instead of full CUCM. If you have slightly more sites you can go for CUCUMBE. Or if you have more number of sites you can go for CUCM.
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http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/solution/esm/qossrnd.pdf
Other details will be given in CUCM SRND.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/srnd/8x/uc8x.html
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http://tools.cisco.com/cucst/faces/login.jsp
Regards
Ronak Patel
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AirPort Utility 6.0 - AirPlay over WAN

What's this option do exactly?
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Proper Configuration of DNS server for our new branch office

Hi All,
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the 2 DC's located in HO?

Hi,
If you have multiple DC's in that site i would recommend using any of the partner DC's IP addresses as preferred one and secondary DNS IP to pointing to itself. Dont use loopback addresses configure it with actual IP addresses.
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The whole configure over WAN thing is confusing me I don't want anyone to be able to access my airport extreme over the WAN. How can I check to make sure that is the way I have it setup?

I just bought a new airport extreme and I want to make sure that is NOT set up for "configure over WAN". How do I check to make sure that is how I have it set up? I only want access to the base via WPA2 password

Open AirPort Utility, select the AirPort Extreme, and click Manual Setup
Click the Base Station tab located just below the row of icons
Remove any check mark that might be in the box next to Allow Setup over WAN
Click Update to save your settings and the AirPort Extreme will restart in 25-30 seconds
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We are planning to put a subscriber across WAN.We have enough bandwidth (6MB) bewteen sites and we followed all the SRND recommendations(especially QOS) for Cluster over WAN.
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you could put a good load of data on the wire across the wan, see if you can get 3-4mb (or whatever your maximum is) and then test your pings.
use the results added to the number of phones (BHCA) and see what the numbers 'should' look like.
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see the bandwidth calculator at the following link: (requires cco account)
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*Goal: Learn how to connect to my USB hard disk over WAN, share drive with specific people.*
I'm trying to figure out how to remotely access my data on the external drive via connected via USB to my AEBN.
I've spent several hours dinking around with my router, trying to see if I can access the drive over the WAN. I haven't found any manuals, discussions, or K-Base articles that spell it out for me. Below is a list of things I've done. Please indicate whether they are relevant, and if possible what the procedure is. Thanks:
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Since this discussion has now been resurrected...
The advice provided by chrisfenix will allow you to access the Airport drive from a PC on your private LAN.
The preceding discussion, however, was on the topic of accessing the Airport drive remotely over the internet. To do that, you could still use the advice provided by chrisfenix but substitute the public IP address of the Base Station. To find that out (and answer a question posed earlier in this discussion as well) just go to http://whatismyip.com/ from any computer on your own network.
To answer a question posed by the originator of this discussion - Bonjour is not at all necessary for remote access of the Airport drive. Those people who know how to use this feature will know what it is for and how to implement it - the rest of us can just pretend this feature doesn't exist.

AirPort: Setup over WAN/Bonjour?

Hi all
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This is a guess, but I think that for the second option to be active, the first option would have to be active.

DNS settings for virtual host 10.6 server

We have just gone through a rebranding exercise, i.e. the company name has changed from 'mycompany' to our 'ourcompany'.
For various reasons we have decided to not rename our complete setup, but rather add a virtual host for our mail server including a second primary DNS zone for the new domain 'ourcompany'.
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Running DIG for 'www.ourcompany.com.au' results in the correct A record IP address being shown, but it is still not showing in any browser – we also made sure we emptied our caches.
Although we thought this should work relatively easily, we are now totally confused as to the additional primary zones general settings... currently we allow zone transfer and provide an entry in the nameserver section.
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Mr. Hoffman,
Than you very much for your reply - unfortunately, despite studying and testing your advice (incl. wesbite) we seem to not get much further.
Please find our comments inserted below...
MrHoffman wrote:
FWIW, both mycompany.com.au and ourcompany.com.au are real and registered domains; I'll presume they're not the domains you're migrating from or to. Accordingly, I'll use example.org for your old stuff, and example.com for your new stuff; the example domains are RFC-reserved for this usage.
Correct we are not using my bad example domains.
Each host should have one A record (and one AAAA record, if you have IPv6 active), and one of the more common errors in these migrations is setting up an A record for each new domain that might arrive; each host has one A (and possibly one AAAA) record, and that's the canonical name for that host. Externally, that'll probably be the latest name in any sequence (such as www.example.com), and all previous names (including www.example.org) will have CNAME entries.
To clarify do you mean the following: internally we should not have more than one A record for each host... i.e. one for example.org and one for example.com and presumably any other subdomains should be CNAME records?
2. externally we should change the A record for www.example.org to a CNAME record and create a new A record for www.example.com;
Internally (and here's why having a different domain inside is handy) use one of the old names; use example.org, for instance. This means you can use the public DNS services for the external web sites and resources; your internal DNS servers receive the requests for example.com hosts and go "duh, lemme ask somebody else for that", and that somebody else is the (public) DNS server your external DNS services for example.com hosts.
Exactly what we had initially done - basically we (naively) thought we could get away with only relying on external DNS translations... however that resulted in mail clients on our LAN loosing their connection every 5-10 minutes, thus we decided to setup another primary DNS zone which fixed that problem but created the other.
Please also note we have created a subdomain admin.example.com which properly resolves to the CMS backend - btw. from within this backend you can then preview the any page on the regular website with their non www. URLs.
Since the current setup resolves to the correct IP address I wonder if it could be a problem with the .htaccess rewrite rules the web developer has setup to remove the www. ... or is this too far fetched?
The usual trigger for not reaching the external A (or AAAA) records is either a stale cache on the particular client (for translations inside the Time To Live (TTL) values for the old DNS translations, or pending a local cache flush on each client), or (and this is more common) confusion over authoritative DNS servers; you have your internal DNS configured as authoritative for the new www.example.com domain, and also authoritative for the old www.example.org domain, and your external DNS is also authoritative for (probably) both domains. Internal requests get as far as the internal server, and get an authoritative translation (possibly being "no such host"), and don't go any further.
Safari & Firefox present with 'Server not found' errors.
So we are still stuck thus any further advice would be much appreciated.

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I have a domain name(domain.com) DNS hosted at my ISP. I also have 3 sub domains DNS hosted at the same ISP pointing to various external ip addresses (mail.domain.com, vpn.domain.com and ts.domain.com). We want to set up sales.domain.com to point to an
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Difference between Share Disks over WAN vs. over Internet using Bonjour?

I would like to find out the Difference between selecting the "Share Disks over WAN" option only vs also selecting the additional "Share disks over Internet using Bonjour" option. Any info is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

you can access drives plugged into your AirPort extreme base station from outside the network by typing in the IP address of the modem/base station in the "Connect to Server" dialogue on the Finders "Go" menu (or press Command+K when in Finder). You can get the base station IP by opening the AirPort Utility from your utilities folder, and click "manual setup" at the very bottom of the summary tab should be the IP address given the base by your modem.
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DNS zones for Mail virtual host

Hello,
We have a split DNS server hosting mail for company.com. So we have a DNS zone called company.com with the appropriate records (A, MX).
We now need in the same box to host mail for another domain, company.org. Do we have to create a separate DNS zone for company.org with another A record for the server?
Regards
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If you're going strictly for mail and with no other network services are associated, then Camelot is quite correct and you can use an MX, and enable virtual hosting within the mail server.
If you're doing "other stuff" with that domain, then you'll need the zone.
Given the usual fondness for, well, "incomplete" questions and for server configurations and networks that, um, "evolve", then the answer I'd use is "yes"; add the zone. (If for no other reason than somebody's eventually going to want a web server with the domain, or...)
I'm not a big fan of split-horizon though I can and do use it for specific cases. I prefer to partition "inside" from "outside", and that avoids this quagmire.
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