Re: LAN configured by DHCP

From: Tauno Voipio (tauno.voipio.REMOVE_at_iki.fi.NOSPAM)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:03:54 GMT

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>I have a LAN with and a gateway running Linux acting as a Firewall and
>>NAT, it acts as a dhcp server as well. My question is about what are
>>the differences or what is better, configure the dhcp server to
>>configure the clients with the "public" dns server (the one that my
>>ISP provides), or to configure a DNS server in the machine that acts
>>as a gateway and configure the DNS of the other machines with the
>>gateway machine adress?
>
>
> I recommend you use dnsmasq as both your DHCP and DNS server and then tell
> your clients to use the gateway for DNS.
> This way you can give local names to your machines,
>
>
> Stefan

Another vote to dnsmasq.

Stay away from bind - it's too heavy for this kind of work. 

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

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