Simple, indeed. For that purpose, I recommend Carla Schroeder's "Linux
Cookbook" from O'Reilly. It has several recipes for setting up bind (and
djbdns fwiw), and does a good job of explaining things in a concise manner.
Stephen wrote:
a very simple reason comes to my mind, one i am wanting to use
so i can learn bind to add it to my list of skills.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Eric Shubert <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>.
I want to be able to assign names like
macbook.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org> for my macbook
crappy.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org> for my windows machine
e-server.<mynet>.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 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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