2008/11/4 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > >> my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 >> months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that >> i'm thinking could be used as the network dhcp instead of my modem >> (which i'm thinking is half the problem) this server would connect to >> the internet with the modem and then give each system on the network a >> dhcp address as well as provide an internel dns. >> >> i've looked at guides that use bind 9 but it doesn't make a whole lot >> of sense for what i'm trying to achieve. at least as far as i'm aware. >> networking isn't my forte. >> >> so is it possible to use a single nic laptop as a dhcp/dns server for >> an internal home network? >> >> if that is possible would moving my apache server to the same laptop >> cause issues with the dhcp/dns config? > > look at dnsmasq. I don't use the dhcp part, but it works just fine > out-of-the-box for dns. The box that connects to my (dialup) modem runs > dnsmasq and has all my hosts in /etc/hosts. The other boxes on my > network know their own hostname, IP address, and the IP of the box > running dnsmasq as the DNS server. > > DHCP has seemed like overkill for me where each box is dedicated to > something specific (i.e. the main box, the print/backup/terminal server, > the OpenBSD box; with coresponding hostnames of titan, rocky (noisy > fan), and reliant (14 years old, never a problem). >
thanks, this looks like the perfect package. i'll give it a whirl now. i'll follow the wiki page and here's the link if anyone else is doing something similar http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/dnsmasq > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
