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

[Nevyn]

*lmao* well I guess so... a gui to add a line to two text files at the
very least. That'd be worth it right?

On 3/9/07, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
> 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
> >>
>
>
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