Adam Hardy <adam.ant <at> cyberspaceroad.com> writes: > I've moved on to the bells and whistles now that I've got my network up > again. > Now that I'm using DHCP I need some sort of DNS to locate the servers on my LAN > by name. > > I see I already have avahi-daemon, which is mDNS according to man, running on my > workstation. I'm not sure when or why that got installed, although it isn't > configured for this situation because my DHCP-controlled IP address isn't > able > to use it to locate named servers on my LAN (or at least the new server I just > set up where the DHCPD runs). > > The dhcp.conf on my new server mentions DDNS which I haven't looked into, and > the link mentioned above from debian-administration.org concerns bind9 dns. > > What is the most popular these days, or rather the most easily configured and > managed?
to answer my own question and for anyone else's info, DDNS and DHCP are handled quickly and simply by dnsmasq, which I discovered just now but wish I'd discovered 3 months ago. There's good docs on it and a searchable mailing list at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.dnsmasq.general -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
