dnsmasq works well for me in that kind of scenario. Tony Cowderoy
On 11/05/2012 17:32, Mark Rogers wrote: > In the office we have a Zentyal server box doing lots of things but > most of them unnecessary and we're going to replace most of it's > functionality with a simple Draytek ADSL router. > > However, one thing it doesn't do is DNS. So I need something that I > can set up on my Linux box that'll sit out of the way doing a very > basic job. > > In the office I have a couple of development servers, eg server1 and > server2, and for web development they'll host sites like > test1.server1, test2.server1, etc. So I need DNS in the office that > will map "server1" to an IP address, and "*.server1" as a cname for > server1 (or an A record to the IP address if that's easier). This is > something that Zentyal won't let me do without directly hacking the > bind config files, which is another reason for moving on from that. > > Anything else will be forwarded to an external DNS server (or just to > the router). > > So bind is an option, but overkill. Should I install that on my > desktop or are there better options? > > Mark > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro