Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 06:32 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote: >> Dazed_75 wrote: >>> I think I have found the answer. It looks to me like a router which has >>> dnsmasq functionality is exactly what I am looking for. It would have >>> been nice to find a no cost solution, but I think this is the right >>> answer. Looks like it meets all the criteria and beyond the initial >>> setup seems to be mostly maintenance free. >>> >>> For those that have a single machine sharing its network connection with >>> the rest of the LAN, they can do this totally with dnsmasq software. >>> >> L, >> I'm glad you've found something that meets your requirements. Three comments: >> >> 1) The first criteria was that no 'computers' are always turned on. I guess >> you're not including a router as a computer. Your DHCP/DNS server would >> *have* to be on all the time. ;) >> >> 2) A solution that's been working for me is IPCop (http://ipcop.org) on a >> formerly retired emachines 333mh box. Pretty much a firewall on steroids, >> IPCop provides a slew of neat features including DHCP and DNS (caching and >> local hosts) services. I use every feature available (except web proxy) to >> one extent or another. It's very easy to configure, as everything after >> initial NIC configuration (part of installation) is web based. However, >> TTBOMK IPCop does not have a way to automatically update DNS hosts from >> dynamic DHCP leases. It's very simple though to assign static IP addresses >> to servers in DHCP and add them to the DNS hosts file. At least all >> maintenance is consolidated this way, and is easy to do (gui web, from any >> machine that's running on the LAN). >> >> 3) While not necessarily a concern in the environment(s) you're addressing, >> updating DNS with dynamic DHCP leases can be a security risk in some >> (business) environments. I'm guessing this is why you don't see much of it >> going on. >> >> Just my .02 >> >> P.S. Samba might be more what you're looking for, but that only covers the >> DNS (name resolution) part. You'd still need a DHCP server available to hand >> out local IP addresses. > ---- > I definitely agree on ipcop but: > > - businesses definitely use dynamic dns with dhcp leases...that is > standard operational mode for Windows AD and even if using ISC's DHCPd, > Windows machines will try to do an RRSET on the dns server. I routinely > use ISC's DHCPd and BIND and routinely use dynamic updating and set the > appropriate ACL's Agreed. However, Dazed's configuration isn't using Windows AD. > - Samba doesn't do DNS resolution by default, but uses NetBIOS and WINS > resolutions which are clearly not DNS, don't provide fqdn (fully > qualified domain name) and not appropriate for resolution on typical > tcp/ip based services. I'm thinking that Dazed's LAN would not need fqdn's. Perhaps I'm mistaken. Your point that samba is not a robust DNS solution is certainly valid though. > - While I don't recall ipcop's web based interface having options for > ddns and I don't use ipcop to provide DHCP or DNS services, I can see > that the versions are more than capable of supporting ddns and can > easily be manually configured to do so. That'd certainly be worth looking into. It'd be a nice feature to request for the base distro too. > Craig > Thanks, Craig. The howto you referenced at http://www.brennan.id.au/ looks very nice. -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss