On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:28 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote:
> >
> > I agree. However, this is at home and it makes many things convenient
> > (my parents no longer have to remember the router IP addresses, they
> > just show up as soon as you hop on the home network). You still need
>
> Do you not have DHCP to handle this?
DHCP does allocate IP addresses. However, the router interface has a
bandwidth monitor, and it's also useful when your connection goes down
(as Airtel's home plan does so very often for us).
> How have you setup your home LAN DNS? Is there any other zone besides
> the default "localhost.localdomain"?
All computers on the LAN are in the .lan zone (Avahi complained greatly
when I just used the .local zone) so I settled for this (and I like it).
I have attached my zone file if it helps.
--
Regards,
Roshan George <ros...@arjie.com>
$TTL 1D
@ IN SOA ns.lan. postmaster.lan. (
2009042900 ; Serial
8H ; Refresh
2H ; Retry
1W ; Expire
1D) ; Minimum
IN NS ns.lan.
IN MX 10 smtp.lan.
;
localhost A 127.0.0.1
router A 192.168.1.1
delphi A 192.168.1.34
mjolnir A 192.168.1.33
pan A 192.168.1.38
gw A 192.168.1.254
ns CNAME pan
smtp CNAME pan
*.pan CNAME pan
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