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

[Cliff Pratt]

Nevyn wrote:
> On 3/10/07, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
>> On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:15, Nevyn wrote:
>>> *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?
>> 'gedit'? The thing is, if you're editing DNS records, you either
>> know what you are doing, or you're going to break things (trust me
>> on this :). So it seems reasonable that the barrier to entry should
>> be a little higher.
>> 
>> Also, I'd like to think that many of the people who have the
>> ability (as in, own the address space) to enter reverse-lookup
>> entries probably don't do much of it by hand anyway, and have a
>> database somewhere that produces the bind files, or something like
>> that.
>> 
>> Remember that a person running a DNS server that points to a couple
>> of hosts can't do the reverse DNS of those hosts, so in most
>> peoples cases, that part of it isn't much good anyway.
> 
> I suppose that's my biggest barrier in learning DNS. Scope. I'm still
>  looking at a DNS server from my own needs which is a DNS server 
> running simply for my internal network with full authourity.
> 
If you run a DNS server on your network that doesn't, ever, get accessed
from outside you can do practically what you want, including setting up
rDNS, What you'd use rDNS for, except experimentation, I dunno.

Cheers,

Cliff