On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 22:36 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 10:25pm on Sunday, October 21, 2007 (UK time), zephod@xxxxxxxxxx scrawled: > > > Yes, I know I could do that. It's OK when there are only 2 boxes but > > what if I had a small office setup with, say, 100 PCs. It's not so > > practical then. I'm interested in finding out if there is another way > > to make this work. > > An office setup that you described would probably do this using a domain > name server (DNS) such as BIND. This would serve public internet > addresses as well as the private network ones - the DHCP server can > update the DNS with the dynamic addresses when it allocates them. > > You can set this up on your GNU/Linux box - I run one for my small home > network. Note that if you do, your Windows box would need to be set to > point to the GNU/Linux one its primary DNS, but you would want a > secondrary DNS server for when the GNU/Linux one is down. > > You can find some instructions I have written here: > http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#bind > > Steve > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list I found this useful when setting up my home DDNS http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/dns/?sc_cid=bcm_edmsept_007 with a second chapter here http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2006/12/15/dns/ I have a blog type file of how I set up my network if anyone is interested. John
