On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 06:09, Colin Brace wrote: > Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > For a home LAN I would recommend you utilize /etc/host files to manage > > your addresses instead of a DNS. Just configure your /etc/resolv.conf > > files to point to your ISPs DNS servers. > > The ASDL router-modem that I have can be configured to run DNS services > for clients on the internal network, but I have my doubts about this; it > seems to fall out on a regular basis and I recently reconfigured my > setup to use the ISP DNS servers instead. Do you have any experience > with these router-based DNS options? Are they a viable alternative? I have not used a router-modem with that feature. For a home LAN with even a dozen machines it is not difficult to maintain /etc/host files across the machines. I also limit DCHP to laptops that are on and off the LAN on a regular basis. All other systems on my LAN have hard coded IP addresses. That is my preference. I believe it makes managing all of my systems easier. Keep it simple if possible. I would continue to point my machines at the ISPs DNS servers directly. I am sure you can make it work but it seems to me that it complicates the setup. At work I have used a split DNS and would recommend that in such a case. I implemented several DNS servers (for redundancy) for internal use as well as several that faced the Internet. The zone used for the ones facing the Internet had very few entries since we only needed to advertise a dozen or so web sites along with various MX records. The internal DNS servers literally had thousands of entries for all of the equipment we had on the company intranet. This was organized in several zones. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx To err is human, to moo bovine.
