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

[Warren]

On 2007/03/10 12:18, "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.

<flamesuit>gedit??? vi, surely? :-P</flamesuit>

>From what I understood, this was an internal / RFC 1819 kinda install, so
what better a way to get to learn how to do DNS, but by getting in there and
breaking it?

Assuming your stuff can't drop into the public internet, I see no major
issues with dealing with this...

Of course, you could also look at the ability to deliberately break the
internet (grab a hosts file that lists a whole heap of ad servers and add
that in... That would be an interesting if not nasty exercise ...)

/me

Warren.