Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

[Andy Hawkins <andy@gently.org.uk>]

Hi,

In article <[🔎] 102059aa-fd21-11e7-9b6a-00163eeb5320@msgid.mathom.us>,
           Michael Stone<mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> If you said why you were looking to abandon a (presumably working?) 
> solution that might help explain your requirements. If your goal is 
> simple integration between DNS and DHCP (which is not what you 
> originally asked for) then dnsmasq is probably the easiest solution. 

Part of it is simplicity. As Greg Wooledge said, bind and dhcpd just seem
like massive overkill for a small network such as mine.

Also, the integration of DNS and DHCP would be a useful one as well, as
currently the majority of my machines are assigned a fixed address by the
dhcp server, and this address has an appropriate 'A' record in bind.

That means whenever I want to add a machine that can be accessible by name,
I have to reconfigure both dhcpd *and* bind.

I realise that with a bit of effort I could probably configure bind and
dhcpd to talk to each other and update DNS records, but again that all just
seems overkill for my 'needs'.

That said, my setup at home is massive overkill anyway (a XCP based VM host,
running several VMs to isolate the various services provided to my network).
I'm an inveterate fiddler when it comes to computing, so am always on the look
out for the next 'best' thing to try!

Thanks again to all for the input.

Andy