ZeroTier Question
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@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:
OK. Let me preface the next comment by Thanking you all for helping with this.
I have access to 2 machines, both off-campus. What do you need from those machines to assist in this issue?
The short answer would be for you to generate a hosts files with the ZT IP addresses of any servers they will need access to... and for you to copy that file to those two machines...
Edit: I would include the AD servers, and any file server or application server that they need access to in the hosts file.
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@dafyre said in ZeroTier Question:
@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:
OK. Let me preface the next comment by Thanking you all for helping with this.
I have access to 2 machines, both off-campus. What do you need from those machines to assist in this issue?
The short answer would be for you to generate a hosts files with the ZT IP addresses of any servers they will need access to... and for you to copy that file to those two machines...
Edit: I would include the AD servers, and any file server or application server that they need access to in the hosts file.
While I really dislike the lack of elegance of this solution, the dual IP nature of devices almost mandates this to ensure DNS works correctly.
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@Dashrender said in ZeroTier Question:
@dafyre said in ZeroTier Question:
@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:
OK. Let me preface the next comment by Thanking you all for helping with this.
I have access to 2 machines, both off-campus. What do you need from those machines to assist in this issue?
The short answer would be for you to generate a hosts files with the ZT IP addresses of any servers they will need access to... and for you to copy that file to those two machines...
Edit: I would include the AD servers, and any file server or application server that they need access to in the hosts file.
While I really dislike the lack of elegance of this solution, the dual IP nature of devices almost mandates this to ensure DNS works correctly.
I thought simple trumped elegance?
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@dafyre said in ZeroTier Question:
@Dashrender said in ZeroTier Question:
@dafyre said in ZeroTier Question:
@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:
OK. Let me preface the next comment by Thanking you all for helping with this.
I have access to 2 machines, both off-campus. What do you need from those machines to assist in this issue?
The short answer would be for you to generate a hosts files with the ZT IP addresses of any servers they will need access to... and for you to copy that file to those two machines...
Edit: I would include the AD servers, and any file server or application server that they need access to in the hosts file.
While I really dislike the lack of elegance of this solution, the dual IP nature of devices almost mandates this to ensure DNS works correctly.
I thought simple trumped elegance?
the problem is scale. This solution doesn't scale well.
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@Dashrender said in ZeroTier Question:
@dafyre said in ZeroTier Question:
@Dashrender said in ZeroTier Question:
@dafyre said in ZeroTier Question:
@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:
OK. Let me preface the next comment by Thanking you all for helping with this.
I have access to 2 machines, both off-campus. What do you need from those machines to assist in this issue?
The short answer would be for you to generate a hosts files with the ZT IP addresses of any servers they will need access to... and for you to copy that file to those two machines...
Edit: I would include the AD servers, and any file server or application server that they need access to in the hosts file.
While I really dislike the lack of elegance of this solution, the dual IP nature of devices almost mandates this to ensure DNS works correctly.
I thought simple trumped elegance?
the problem is scale. This solution doesn't scale well.
You are quite right about that. Something like PDQ Deploy would help with that though.
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Just a curiousity question. Is it possible to install ZT on VMWare servers? I have three vsphere servers and it would be nice to be able to connect to those via vsphere client but it is just a "want" more than a need.
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@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:
Just a curiousity question. Is it possible to install ZT on VMWare servers? I have three vsphere servers and it would be nice to be able to connect to those via vsphere client but it is just a "want" more than a need.
ESXi is a unique microkernel and no longer (since VMWare 4.X?) a Linux kernel.
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@WLS-ITGuy said in ZeroTier Question:
Just a curiousity question. Is it possible to install ZT on VMWare servers? I have three vsphere servers and it would be nice to be able to connect to those via vsphere client but it is just a "want" more than a need.
No, not at this time. ZT has not been written for ESXi and would need to be special written and compiled for that platform. It is not trivial at all compared to normal platforms (mostly because it has some unique needs.)
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Is ESXi its own completely unique thing or is it based on something else?
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@adam.ierymenko said in ZeroTier Question:
Is ESXi its own completely unique thing or is it based on something else?
At the very core of it is a Linux kernel of some flavor, but that just used to load their own vmkernel.
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@adam.ierymenko said in ZeroTier Question:
Is ESXi its own completely unique thing or is it based on something else?
100% unique. It shares no code nor API with any other product.
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@JaredBusch said in ZeroTier Question:
At the very core of it is a Linux kernel of some flavor, but that just used to load their own vmkernel.
No Linux at all. Never was. Long ago there was Linux in the host VM (Dom0 equivalent) but never in the ESX product itself. That was just a VM on top of ESX that provided a GUI. But that was removed long ago and now there isn't even that.
