Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-12 Thread keith smith
g BIND for home network name resolution To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 7:00 AM 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 wrot

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-12 Thread Eric Shubert
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

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-12 Thread Eric Shubert
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

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-12 Thread Stephen
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 wrote: > Eric Cope wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> I want to setup FQDNs for my home network. > > Why? What do you intend to accomplish? > (

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Technomage_Hawke
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_Netwo

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Eric Cope
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> wrote: > I've been there man. managing a bunch of hosts files is waay too much > work. I tried the BIND for l

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Technomage_Hawke
I've been there man. managing a bunch of hosts files is waay 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 t

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Eric Cope
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 hope

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Eric Shubert
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

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Brian Cluff
Learning BIND can be a very nice skill, but if you would like something quick and simple, try running dnsmasq. It will setup DNS entries from whatever is in your hosts files. Brian Cluff On 08/11/2010 12:39 PM, Eric Cope wrote: Hello all, I want to setup FQDNs for my home network. Does anyon

Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Eric: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > Hello all, > I want to setup FQDNs for my home network. 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

Running BIND for home network name resolution

2010-08-11 Thread Eric Cope
Hello all, I want to setup FQDNs for my home network. 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, .dyndns.org. I want to be abl