Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (882 mails)

[Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/27/2010 05:09 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> On 12/27/2010 4:40 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> > Have a look at dnsmasq:
> >
> > <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html>
> >
> > It's in the repos too.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lew
> Thanks Lew for this pointer...  I like the idea of DHCP being integrated with DNS but given the complexity I have already faced getting DHCP to work properly in our environment, for example to assign static addresses to systems with dual boot OS's using the same MAC addresses, 
> not sure I want to try and tackle a whole new tool set. I will keep it in mind as a possible alternative...
>
> From my research, I need to run split DNS servers so that domain names that are known externally, from the internet, can also be used internally. It appears I either have a choice of running two (split) DNS servers, or find a router that will do inside to inside NAT/PAT. Not an 
> easy task as none of the router manufacturers advertise such capability and so far I have had no luck getting answers to questions I sent some of em... So am looking at split DNS servers instead...

Hi Mark,

You should really take a quick look at dnsmasq.  I've used it for networks that 
sound similar to your situation,
and serving static and dynamic DHCP-assigned IP's is trivially easy.  All is configured from one file in /etc.  I've used it in a production environment with maybe 100-hosts on an inside, non-IP-forwarded subnet, and in small natted subnets similar to a home cable-modem 
networks.  It just works.

Regards,
Lew

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