Thanks All.
I've used Bind in the past, but it has been a couple of years. I do
remember that it was a little more of a technical pain in the butt, but
effective. But seeing as it's been a while, I thought I'd ask.
I checked out DNSmasq and it seems to be a reasonable solution in my
case. At least worth trying out. If it doesn't work out I can always
go back to BIND.
Shawn
On 13-08-12 12:53 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
dnsmasq is used by default on OpenWRT IIRC as well.
Bind may be a "heavy" solution, but it is ultimately the one I chose. I
have 3 bind servers on my LAN. The primary is actually a VM (KVM) with
the slave installs living on the firewall itself (vanilla Ubuntu 13.04
server) and the KVM server host.
I used to have the isc dhcp server update the zone file, but now I
statically assign the DNS to avoid collisions so this is possible, it
just does not work out of the box like it does with dnsmasq (I do not
actually want this enabled in my primary LAN).
To actually answer your question, either solution will work, but I am a
fan of Bind so I will probably always suggest it :)
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Anand Singh <an...@linizen.com
<mailto:an...@linizen.com>> wrote:
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
<mailto: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
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