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

[Cliff Pratt]

A GUI to add a line to a text file? Surely that's way over the top!

Cheers,

Cliff

Nevyn wrote:
> 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
>>