On Sunday, I mentioned making your forward and reverse DNS entries match up. But I didn’t really discuss what to do if they don’t. For those readers moving into Ubuntu from Mac OS X Server, you’ll note that at installation time, if the hostname doesn’t match the A record and PTR for your server then it will install DNS and make them match up. The reason for this is that host names are a critical aspect in how many of the network services that modern services run. If you don’t have DNS or if you want to fire up DNS in the same manner that Mac OS X Server does…
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Zone Defined
A zone in Fibre Channel is a segment of a fabric that is composed of selected targets and initiators. Like with a VLAN, only the members of a zone have access to one another. Simply because the switch allows the members to access one another doesn’t mean you can’t still limit access more granularly. You can use storage-based filters, such as LUN Masking, for which devices can access one another based on WWNN information from the initiator port. With Xsan, you can use LUN Masking to limit which of the hosts on your SAN have access to your Xserve RAIDs. UPDATE: LUN Masking was removed as a feature from the Xserve…