And depending the number of nodes you have Bind would make things easy to manage. I have a LAMP dev box on a private IP (all my nodes are on a private IP). I use the Windows host file to resolve any sites hosted on my dev box. I use the TLD of "dev", like SomeSite.dev. I put the IP of the LAMP box along with the name of the domain in the host file like this : 192.168.30.55 SomeSite.dev .
However I am not able to reach the dev site via a browser on any other computer on my network because there is no way to resolve to it. If I had Bind setup then any computer on my network would be able to access the test sites I have on my LAMP box and it would be a great learning experience.
I would definitely setup Bind for your private net if you want to learn.
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Keith Smith
--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Running BIND for home network name resolution
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 7:00 AM
a very simple reason comes to my mind, one i am wanting to use
so i can learn bind to add it to my list of skills.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Eric Shubert <
ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
> Eric Cope wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I want to setup FQDNs for my home network.
>
> Why? What do you intend to accomplish?
> (Too often people try implementing a solution for a problem they don't
> really understand.)
>
>> 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 <http://dyndns.org>.
>>
>> I want to be able to assign names like
>>
>> macbook.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org> for my macbook
>> crappy.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org> for my windows machine
>> e-server.<mynet>.dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org> for my freebsd server
>> ...
>
> To be able to do this from the outside/wan, you simply need a client program
> that tells dyndns.org what your (router's if you have cable, or DSL modem's
> if you use DSL) public IP address is, and when it changes. See
> http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/. That program (there are several from
> which to choose, some of which are already built-in to firewalls such as
> IPCop) can run on your router or any one of your computers behind it. There
> are several ways you can do this, none of which directly involve bind.
> DynDNS handles all the bind stuff for you on the public side.
>
> On the lan side of things, you can set up a private DNS server if you'd
> like, but for a handful of computers, it's often easier to just edit the
> hosts file on each machine.
>
>> 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.
>
> Again, why (not)?
>
> Personally, I use IPCop, which takes care of all of this (and much more) for
> me. IPCop is relatively simple, and very reliable.
>
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