[plug] DNS problem

[Ryan]

I run an internal 'wireless' domain on my DNS server that services about 10 
machines
connected through various means on my wireless network.

As long as you make a tld and correctly qualify it in bind it will work 
internally as if it
was a real domain.

So Yes, you need a fake domain OR you can make each machine its own domain,
however to make this later method work you will normally have to type 
everything with
a dot after it such as server.  bigkahoona. in order for anything to work.

I use the first method and have *.wireless, if I put: domain wireless
in my /etc/resolve.conf file it will append wireless to any unqualified 
host names i enter,
so i can just refer to machines like you suggested without specifying 
'wireless'.

Ryan

At 10:21 AM 5/24/01 +0800, you wrote:
>         Since we are on the topic of DNS, I also have a question
>
>         I have a LAN connected to the internet. I recently got an account on
>DHS.ORG, to point to my server.
>
>         I have a caching only DNS server on the box, which works (I just
>fudged it, I havent read up on DNS yet)
>
>         For interests sake, I want to play around with dynamic DNS (I have
>DHCPD running on the server also). Basically I want to be able to resolve
>the addresses of my local boxen via the dns server instead of /etc/hosts or
>c:\windows\hosts etc.....
>
>         Ive named my boxes things like 'server' and 'bigkahoona'..... so
>whats the zone? Would I have to create a fake domain, so my boxen would be
>something like 'server.mydomain' and setup the zone file? I think that a
>'blank' zone is the root zone, so I cant really do that.
>
>         Has anyone else setup a dns server in this manner? Is it possible?
>Or do I really need to go the whole hog and register a domain?