I'm actually an Untangle reseller and only have it installed as a firewall/gateway at two small sites. For larger networks I use it in bridge mode behind another firewall. It's just not a robust gateway solution.
For Internet facing DNS zones Bind is the way to go, but is overkill for your application. DNSmasq is a better option since it is light weight, and has a built-in DHCP server to allow automatic name creation in the DNS responder based on the DHCP hostname. i.e.: If mygamebox picks up a DHCP lease, it automatically gets a DNS entry. DNSmasq is used by many firewall distributions (including Untangle) to provide that functionality. Anand. On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Shawn <sgro...@open2space.com> wrote: > So I have a basic network set up now via my Asus RT-N56U wireless router > with updated firmware (which happens to have parental controls too!!). The > one thing it seems to be missing is name resolution. I can't ping any > other boxes on the network by name with the firewall as my gateway and name > resolver. > > The obvious short term solution is to add my boxes into my /etc/hosts > file. That only affects my local box though. So I'm looking at setting up > a DNS server on my network and thought I'd ask here for tips and such > first. (my previous firewall - Untangle - has failed on me, but allowed me > to add HOSTS entries on the firewall that would be used for internal > resolution...) > > Is Bind still the best DNS server? Is there another/simpler name > resolution solution I'm missing? > > Thanks for any tips. > > Shawn > > ______________________________**_________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> > Mailing List Guidelines > (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> > ) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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