Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.
2008/11/4 Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca>:
> 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.
>
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