Simple DNS server (was Re: [nzlug] mdadm and lvm on a live distro?)

[Nevyn]

I was using it at one stage but it only seemed to work half the time.
Never looked into why it seemed so unreliable. It's always vexed me
why no one's written a simple gui to add hosts to a bind style dns
server.

I.e. enter in an ip address, a domain name and the purpose of the
machine/connection (I.e. mail, general etc.) and write a zones file if
it's not already there, append to a zones file if it is there, do the
same for the reverse lookup side of things etc.

On 3/9/07, Howard <howard-nzlug at fox.co.nz> wrote:
> on 8/03/2007 1:00 a.m. Nevyn wrote:
> > Then there's always the other little fun bit - making sure I
> > have a DNS server somewhere so that I don't have to remember silly
> > 'lil numbers. This is definitely something I don't wanna have to do as
> > they always seem so full blown and ugly. I.e. all I want to do is say
> > "This is the name, map it to this ip addy" and be done with it.
>
> Hi Nevyn
>
> check out Dnsmasq, which comes with IPCop, DD-WRT and other small
> firewall type distros.
>
> http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
>
> It is a simple DNS proxy & dhcp server in one which serves a local
> /etc/hosts to the network so you don't have to manage local hosts files.
>
> You can see how simple the setup is in this howto:
> http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/print.php/3377351
>
> cheers
> Howard
>
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