Tag: DNS

  • Using a Synology NAS as an emergency backup DNS server for vSphere

    Powering up a highly virtualized infrastructure can sometimes be an interesting experience.  Interesting in that “crossing-the-fingers” sort of way.  Maybe it’s an outdated run book, or an automated power-on of particular VMs that didn’t occur as planned.  Sometimes it is nothing more than a lack of patience between each power-on/initialization step.  Whatever the case, if…

  • It’s all about the name

    Every once in a while you run into a way of doing things that makes you wonder why you ever did it any other way.  For me, that was using DNS aliasing for referencing all servers, and services that they provide.  I use them whenever possible. Many years ago I had a catastrophic server failure. …