What are the hardware/software pre-requisites for Rush?
There are some prerequisites for Rush, especially on Windows and Mac networks. Rush assumes there’s a professionally configured network; hostname/ip lookups all working, consistently configured user accounts, file servers for the common data with correctly configured access permissions. Operating systems now come with ‘zero administration’ defaults (WINS, Rendezvous, DHCP) which lead some into thinking there’s very little that needs to be configured for a working network. But these defaults are NOT suitable for production; ‘zero admin’ networks will work sporadically, which is fine for ‘home’ networks, but not for production. • Use DNS for hostname/ip lookups Do /not/ use the Microsoft “WINS” or Apple “Rendezvous” defaults; these are ‘zero administration’ name lookup systems that are weak protocols, and are not fault tolerant. Their biggest problem is being unable to do name lookups for machines that suddenly turned off, which will cause network wide problems during rendering. DNS does
