Running BIND for home network name resolution

[Brian Cluff]

Learning BIND can be a very nice skill, but if you would like something 
quick and simple, try running dnsmasq.  It will setup DNS entries from 
whatever is in your hosts files.

Brian Cluff

On 08/11/2010 12:39 PM, Eric Cope 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 <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
> ...
>
> 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
>
>
>
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