Quoting Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being able to > have their names resolve to IP's easily (no or minimal config)? > > I'm not currently running a DNS server but can put one in. What I've > read of configuring bind so far makes it sound like a sizable > investment in time to get working what seems to me to be a pretty > basic and common desire. >
Setting up DNS takes a couple of hours in one go. Getting around it will take about the same amount of time in smaller chunks. You have three (or more) alternatives: 1) configure DHCP server to always give out the same IP address to the same NIC each time and edit /etc/hosts on each box as new hosts added. 2) configure DHCP server to give out the same IP address each time and configure DNS with the names and IP addresses once and edit /etc/resolv.conf once on each box. 3) configure DHCP and DNS servers to use Dynamic DNS, so DHCP server updates DNS server each time an IP address changes. Having done all three at one time or another, I've settled on number two. HTH, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
