Re: How to DNS my home network with Linux

From: Tauno Voipio (tauno.voipio_at_iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 12/08/03 

Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:50:44 GMT

"Bob" <ftoomch@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3fd1f4ff$0$1728$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au...
> I'm trying to set up BIND on my RH9 box, but cant make heads nor tails of
the DNS howto or even the O'Reilly BIND book.
>
> I just want something simple so that i don't have to change /etc/hosts on
every machine every time I make a small change
> in topology.
>
> Here is my position:
> 1. I have a dynamic IP 203.<something> address kindly lent to me by my ISP
to which I am successfully pointing a domain
> name from dhs.org, this is all fine.
>
> 2. This domain name only points to my NAT router, behind which I have a
succesful network of DHCP'd hosts, all given
> their own private 10.0.0.* static IP addresses based on their MAC
addresses.
>
> 3. All these hosts can successfully do DNS queries with my ISP's
nameserver and I can surf the web in style.
>
> What I'd really like to be able to do is set up an internal nameserver
that these hosts can also ask for the internal
> network hostnames, I don't really care if the outside world can resolve
these names (since they are on a NATted private
> network anyway). The world can access my network through my dhs.org domain
name in any case.
>
> Here's the question:
> Is it possible to set up named so that it doesn't care about the outside
world?
>
> Any replies or links would be appreciated.

My favourite is dnsmasq - simple to set up and uses entries from /etc/hosts,
so you do not need to tailor the DNS records. For details, see
<http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html>.

HTH

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi

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