On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,
I want to setup FQDNs for my home network. Does anyone have a good tutorial on setting up BIND for a Mac/Windows/*nix environment? I was hoping to keep DHCP from my router (it supports static DHCP - yes I know that's contradictory).
I have a dynDNS account, <mynet>.dyndns.org.

I want to be able to assign names like

macbook.<mynet>.dyndns.org for my macbook
crappy.<mynet>.dyndns.org for my windows machine
e-server.<mynet>.dyndns.org for my freebsd server
...

My googling has come up short, mostly because my search terms are lame. Anyone have any ideas? tips? tutorials? good search terms? I don't want to rely on hosts files.

Thanks,
Eric

A split DNS zone is best.

You have yournet.localdomain and setup records for it (or just use your host files for inside resolution). Then you get a domain record with two primary DNS servers in your Nic Whois. You then add your dns servers to that.

I have a domain hosted at DYNDNS also. I like their DNS configuration templates and assistance. They also allow URI forwarders and you can buy mailhop relay for SMTP devices that you must get around port 25 cox limitations.

Here's a good tutorial for home DNS:

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ DNS for Rocket Scientists

Or http://www.brennan.id.au/08-Domain_Name_System_BIND.html

And there is this:

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/dns/

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