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DNS server [was: dhcpd.conf questions]



Jeff D on 18/04/07 01:08, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Adam Hardy wrote:

I'm setting up a new machine to act as a proxy / NAT / gateway / firewall machine for my little network.
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And lastly, how do I set up the server to do DNS just for my LAN - I mean for example I want to be able to ssh from one machine to another by the host names I've given them.


1.  in /etc/default/dhcp3-server you can set what interface to run dhcp on.
2. 192.168.0.0/24 is fine
3. is a little bit more complex, see : http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/355

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?

Thanks!
Adam



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