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Old 08-18-2005, 03:36 PM   #1
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Local DNS server


Hi,
I'm trying to get my router to do local DNS serving as well as the typical routing. Right now I'm just using my ISP's DNS servers, but I would like to set up a caching DNS server that utilizes the root DNS servers rather than my ISP's, imho, horrible DNS servers. I have been looking around at dnsmasq and tinydns, but I'm not sure if they'll do all I want them to do. I need the DNS server to:

lookup DNS addresses via root DNS servers rather than a simple upstream DNS from my ISP
cache DNS lookups
match DNS names to IP addresses when a LAN computer is assigned an IP from my dhcp (i.e. I hook up my laptop, named nixtop, it gets an IP from my dhcp server, and now every computer in my house can ping nixtop and get it's current IP address from my DNS server)

Whatever you can recommend would be helpful.

Thanks much!
 
Old 08-18-2005, 03:39 PM   #2
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yeah dnsmasq can do that. as long as the server running dnsmasq can find your dhcpd.leases file it'll pick it up no problem.
 
Old 08-18-2005, 09:28 PM   #3
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I got the impression that dnsmasq only did dns forwarding though. Am I missing something or do I just forward it to the root servers and that will work the same?
 
Old 08-19-2005, 03:47 AM   #4
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i can't see a good reason why not, root servers are still DNS servers... can't quite see why you'd want to use root servers directly though, that's really not how they are meant to be used.
 
  


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