Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 10:58:45 MST 2011


It would also give him some good learning on DNS...

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
> Tom,
>  Are you certain you need DNS and not, say, an entry in your hosts file (/etc/hosts)?
> Usually when testing I just add a hosts entry for the domain in question to the test client boxes and/or servers and that resolves things without having to mess with DNS.
>
> Tom Ostlund wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have my LAMP setup working just fine but I would like to setup dns so
>> that I can fully test the sites that I am working on locally. This is
>> where google fails me. I can see all kinds of stuff for Ubuntu Server
>> but not really anything for Ubuntu Desktop.
>>
>> Can anyone send me a link to a NOOB tutorial on setting this up?
>> Thanks
>> Tom
>> Mesa, Az
>>
>>
>>
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