On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:56:19AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 09 Aug 11:18, Chris G wrote:
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:09:11PM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 08/08/10 19:06, Chris G wrote:
It seems I'm back to my existing/original solution then. I have a little Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 server) system running on an Acer Aspire Revo which provides DHCP and DNS services by running dnsmasq. That works pretty well and enables one to just connect a system to the network and it will get its IP address *and* can be referred to by its name without any hassle.
It's just that I was hoping that I could turn the Acer off as it does little else now as I have moved the web server and mail server to a more powerful system.
Can you not move DNSMasq to that more powerful system too? Or would it end up on the wrong side of a firewall?
That was what I was originally going to do but it's not ideal. My little UPS will only keep the lower power system up for any reasonable time and (as you surmise) the 'more powerful system' while not outside the firewall is the only system which allows connections from the outside world so I'd like to keep the DNS/DHCP off that.
What box is providing the firewall? Surely that'd be the right place to put the dhcp/dns bouncing?
The Vigor 2820n router is the firewall - quite a capable one, that's where we started though, the one thing it can't do is local DNS.
(Also, assuming only linux boxes and macs then installing avahi-daemon is good for doing name resolution, and tends to work quite well. It's what we use for doing stuff in the office, because we don't have to think too hard about it, and it just works. e.g. my laptop appears as erwin.local on the local network, and so can be resolved... actually, it also appears as that on a couple of vpns I have open, but shhh!)
Cheers,
Brett Parker
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