On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:55:34PM -0800, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:08:26PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > At 21:14 1/1/2004, you wrote: > > >Can anyone recommend a good example setup or HOWTO for DNS setup on a > > >private LAN? > > > > You wanna be a little more specific as to what you want to do? It'll make > > it easier to help you. > > Rodolfo is correct. > Simple questions: > Do you own a domain that you also want to use? > Why not just copy /etc/host files for now? > What does not work with a simple caching name server? > DNS provides lots of record types. Which matter? > Are you playing with IPV6? > Does you connection to the internet have a fixed > or a dynamic IP address? > Are the boxes inside using DHCP or fixed host names and IP addresses? > > For now just decide where you keep your master /etc/host file > and copy that to all the hosts after it is updated. I found old bookmark. http://www.sendmail.org/tips/private-dns/ It adresses private address space and is a good place to start. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net