DNS Server - HOME

[Dan Lund]

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you setup the hardware addresses
in the dhcp server to statically assign a system to an IP address, all
DNS is relatively simple then.  No need to worry about updating dns
through dhcp, and done this way you can continue to use dhcp.
At that point it's as simple as setting up a zone file once, and
keeping it up to date in case you change IP addresses for some reason
on your own or you add another machine.
I've done the same at home and used bind8.


On 1/21/06, Mike <stuff at dustsmoke.com> wrote:
> I just turn dhcp off on my linksys router.
>
> I use bind9 and dhcpd3 with ddns to do what your looking at doing. My
> main and myth backend servers are static. The desktops get mac assigned
> ip addresses so they never change, and everything else runs out of a
> dynamic pool of ip's in which dhcpd writes a record to my arpa file so
> everything resolves regardless of their ip.
>
> Although it might be overkill if all your trying to do is resolve things
> at home. It'd be easier to just statically assign each of your computers
> something and setup your hosts file by hand. But if you have a lot of
> things going in and out of your house, or you just want to learn
> something.... I did a quick search and found this page which is a rough
> idea of what I'm talking about.
>
> http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/ddns.htm
>
> -Mike
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