George Toft, have not seem you in a while. Thanks for all this
feedback.
Eventually I will configure DNS on my private net.
Love your parental controls!!
I hope to configure a home server in the future. The first time it was
so I could say I did it. The second time (future) I hope to learn a lot
more and I would like to have the bragging rights.
Keith
On 2022-11-06 07:29, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Short answer to all of your questions is yes, you can do this. I did
> it for several years, and it came in really handy when I wanted to
> control the Internet usage of my pubescent children.
>
> I set up DNS locally - I used georgetoft.com and had it split - outside
> my house (public) only had the simple entries for the A, MX, CNAME
> records. Inside my house, I included the file server, FTP, web and
> mail server hosts.
>
> Then I set up a DHCP server that issued my DNS server's IP as part of
> the DHCP response. That way, everyone in the house could access the
> internal resources.
>
> Now when my teenage children got the hormones and thought they knew
> more than me, I set up two different DHCP configs and used cron to
> activate one profile in the daytime and a different one at night. To
> make this work, I turned off DHCP and WiFi on the Internet Gateway and
> used my own DHCP server and WiFi Access Point, with a TTL of 60
> seconds. At the appointed time, the nighttime profile kicked in which
> only allowed the approved MAC addresses to get a DHCP address,
> effectively cutting them off from the Internet both by their PC and
> their phones. They were out of high school before they figured out how
> to make their phones into hotspots - LOL.
>
> As far as running your own mail server - yes you can (and I did for a
> while), but the effort really isn't worth it. Back when I would get 1
> or 2 SPAM per week, and took great delight in tracking down their mail
> provider and ISP and filing SPAM complaints, but when it ramped up to
> 50/day, I outsourced it to a provider that managed SPAM blocking. I
> tried blacklisting entire countries by IP - that helped. I tried
> subscribing to blacklists - that helped, but in the end, I had more
> important things to do than spend hours per week managing an email
> server.
>
> Regards,
>
> George Toft
>
> On 10/29/2022 8:07 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For some reason .local popped into my head this morning. From what I
>> read it appears I may be able to create an Intranet that has a private
>> domain name such as MyBusiness.local, on a private IP, and I am
>> thinking I can run BIND and make a zone file for this Intranet. In
>> this case, if I am in he local net I can bring it up with
>> MyBusiness.local?? If so then I should be able to add subdomains to
>> the local BIND/zone... So will this private network work like the
>> public Internet?
>>
>> This makes me believe I can create a mail server on this private net
>> for the users of this private net. Not that I want to, however it is
>> interesting.
>>
>> I read that MAC is doing something with the .local domain so it was
>> recommended to use:
>>
>> .test
>> .example
>> .invalid
>> .localhost
>>
>> Would it be possible to create a private network using one of these
>> private TLDs and can I use BIND to control this?
>>
>> How will my browser know to go to my private domain if I use one of
>> these private domains - I seem to recall needing to put this in the
>> hosts file on Linux and Windows so it would resolve. Would BIND
>> override this?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
>>
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