Running BIND for home network name resolution

[Eric Shubert]

Simple, indeed. For that purpose, I recommend Carla Schroeder's "Linux 
Cookbook" from O'Reilly. It has several recipes for setting up bind (and 
djbdns fwiw), and does a good job of explaining things in a concise manner.

Stephen wrote:
> 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 at 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.
>>
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
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