Never say it's impossible ;) I do the very thing it sounds like you're looking to do, at my own home. I could be wrong, but... hey, it never hurts to find out.

First off, I use Cox Internet, with a Linksys Router (Network Everywhere NR041). Not the best of routers I've owned, but it works for the most part. The linksys router handles DHCP for internal IP addresses of 192.168.1.100 and higher: Thus allowing me to assign static IP's using 192.168.1.2 up to 192.168.1.99. The router itself is 192.168.1.1 and it's external IP is grabbed via DHCP from Cox.

The fun part is, I have a fileserver, with a static internal IP of 192.168.1.2. It will never change, on purpose. The server has BIND installed (also known as "named"). I have it do name-to-ip DNS resolving for most of my internal network. That is... 3 desktops, 2 laptops, a few gaming systems, a windows media computer, and perhaps a few other things. Friends come over, they can hook into my 8 port switch, or bring a wireless device and they'll get a dynamic IP. Note that, I do prefer my own desktops & laptops to use static IP's in my own house... thus, servers are allowed 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.10, desktops & laptops 192.168.1.11 through 192.168.1.20. The rest are for future use, and I doubt I'll need them.

After figuring out how I wanted to set them up, and with what IP's, I configured BIND. I won't get into that here, but... I will provide you with slightly modified, yet basic BIND/named configurations to download and peruse for your use. They should work to give you a working example of what I have here at my home. By setting up a DNS server on my home network, I have use of "int.domain", a fake, and internal domain name with hostnames for each IP. Anything else, the DNS server uses the Cox connection to resolve it. If my DNS server fails, my /etc/resolv.conf file also includes Cox's DNS servers as a backup.

If you're interested in how I got it working, I would say check out my config's, and look around. Any questions beyond that, feel free to drop me a line back here in the group, or privately.

Download URL: http://www.phoenixwing.com/upload/named-home.tgz

Hope that helps,

~ Tony E.

Jerry Davis wrote:

Ok,

I am pretty fed up with going through the rig-a-ma-role of finding out what my 
new addresses are for each of my boxes at home everytime my power goes out.
I have to find out what the addresses are by logging into each box, doing an 
ifconfig, and then changing every /etc/hosts file on every machine to match.
Everything is DHCP.

My question is how do I setup a DNS server that keeps track of all that for 
me.

I need the DNS Server to not only resolve all my lan addresses but also the 
internet.

OR do I set everything on my linksys as STATIC according to the MAC address.
Also, if I can do everything static, does it work for the wireless boxes and 
printservers?

Also, what is the step by step for doing this on linksys?

Jerry