simple home dns, dhcp server.
i been have tremendous trouble getting my network to see hostnames and
and other pc's. it will see everything randomly one day and then be
missing the next.
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?
cheers
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