Airport TC and home DNS server
HI,
I have a Windows 2008 small business server providing logins to Windows clients at home.
I use this so that resources can be shared, passwords reset, PC's shared etc on the network. It works (well, worked) well and I am (was) happy with it.
I have a 2013 iMac & a late 2012 Macbook. These worked great with my Virgin Superhub 2 configuration and could mount SMB shares/see all other PC's on the network.
I have purchased a 3TB Airport TC as the superhub is notoriously unreliable with wireless and I also wish to be able to perform remote backups of my mac computers (I already have a solution for my PC's and fudging Time Machine to backup to Windows based network shares was clunky at best).
The TC has been configured in router mode. The Superhub has been set to Modem mode. I had to turn off my DHCP server as the TC won't do NAT unless it is also the DHCP server (frustrating). Still, I reserved addresses to the hosts I need to map ports to, set that up and all was looking good.
I then realised that the DNS servers were being assigned purely from the ISP. This makes sense as my DHCP server has been taken offline. I thought I could over-type the TC DNS entry with my internal Windows 2008 Domain Controller DNS service. If I do this, all my PC's access the internet perfectly but the TC has the flashing amber light. It IS routing traffic to the internet for PC's attached (doing NSLOOKUP resolves both internal and external addresses) but all my mac computers suddenly stop working.
In brief - I can't put my own interna DNS server into my TC config without it thinking there is something wrong.
There may be - but the DNS server I set up (purely .local addresses) has been working great for a long time.
I wish to resolve all hostnames on my Mac as well as on my PC's without having to edit host files or over-write DNS domains on clients - DHCP should allocate the correct data.
Thanks!
Airport Time Capsule (3TB - 7.7.2)-OTHER, iOS 7.0.4, Windows 2008 Domain controller, DNS