CISCOACA.local (Retired)

Our Domain Setup

The CISCOACA.local domain is setup to run off of the servers called Loki and Logan. The both run Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP. Loki is configured as the main server by default, and Logan is configured as the hot standby. They will failover or trade roles if there is ever an issue. Logan may also occasionally switch to the main server leaving Loki as the hot standby, which is fine as they will still have redundancy. Logan is the default standby, as Logan also runs the web server VMs so it has more load already.

To learn more about any of these things, click their respective links throughout this page.

Active Directory

Active Directory holds all of our group policy and security settings. Active Directory controls how all of the computers in our domain behave, and is what allows us to have our unique logins that work on every computer. Without it, we are unable to login, we lose our shared folders, and we lose all our security settings.

Domain Name Services

Domain Name Services (or DNS) is what translates website names to IP addresses (like 24pin.tech to our public IP to Logan). Without it, accessing the internet and other computers on the network would require us to have all of the IPs memorized. That is bad. We like DNS. DNS is also needed for things to function properly since our network is in the middle of MUSD.local's things, so we need to forward properly through them.

DHCP

DHCP is run on Loki as the main server, and Logan is the hot standby. Our DHCP setup is fairly basic, but we do have special settings configured for FOG and for our servers and printers we have DHCP reservations.