That's what I would recommend. IPCop, dd-wrt, or whatever router distro you'd like.

That will handle updating (the outside) dyndns, and also be your local dns resolver where you can specify the names and addresses of all the hosts on your lan.

Technomage_Hawke wrote:
thank you. I'll probably see if I can do something with the dd-wrt machine out in the front closet (its my router or whatever I need it to be).

On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:38 PM, Eric Cope wrote:

I found this link...
http://wiki.genunix2.org:8080/wiki/index.php/Setting_Up_DNS/BIND_On_a_Home_Network

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Technomage_Hawke <technomage.ha...@gmail.com <mailto:technomage.ha...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    I've been there man. managing a bunch of hosts files is waaaaaay
    too much work. I tried the BIND for local networks but could never
    quite get it to work right.

    On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Eric Cope wrote:

    I want to set up a small network of selenium-rc nodes for web
    testing. I'd like one to be the selenium server, a couple testing
    nodes, and the test web server.
    I could do hosts files, but then if I grow the network, or change
    it, the idea of managing all of the hosts files seems like a
    pain. I hoped DNS would be a better solution AND it seemed like a
    great reason to learn how to setup BIND.

    Eric

    On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net
    <mailto:e...@shubes.net>> wrote:

        Eric Cope wrote:

            Hello all,
            I want to setup FQDNs for my home network.


        Why? What do you intend to accomplish?
        (Too often people try implementing a solution for a problem
        they don't really understand.)

            Does anyone have a good tutorial on setting up BIND for a
            Mac/Windows/*nix environment? I was hoping to keep DHCP
            from my router (it supports static DHCP - yes I know
            that's contradictory).
            I have a dynDNS account, <mynet>.dyndns.org
            <http://dyndns.org/> <http://dyndns.org
            <http://dyndns.org/>>.


            I want to be able to assign names like

            macbook.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org/>
            <http://dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org/>> for my macbook
            crappy.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org/>
            <http://dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org/>> for my windows
            machine
            e-server.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org/>
            <http://dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org/>> for my freebsd
            server
            ...


        To be able to do this from the outside/wan, you simply need a
        client program that tells dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org/>
        what your (router's if you have cable, or  DSL modem's if you
        use DSL) public IP address is, and when it changes. See
        http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/. That program (there
        are several from which to choose, some of which are already
        built-in to firewalls such as IPCop) can run on your router
        or any one of your computers behind it. There are several
        ways you can do this, none of which directly involve bind.
        DynDNS handles all the bind stuff for you on the public side.

        On the lan side of things, you can set up a private DNS
        server if you'd like, but for a handful of computers, it's
        often easier to just edit the hosts file on each machine.


            My googling has come up short, mostly because my search
            terms are lame. Anyone have any ideas? tips? tutorials?
            good search terms? I don't want to rely on hosts files.


        Again, why (not)?

        Personally, I use IPCop, which takes care of all of this (and
        much more) for me. IPCop is relatively simple, and very reliable.

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