Running BIND for home network name resolution

[Lisa Kachold]

Hi Eric:

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at 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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