Erroneous DNS

[Allen Taylor]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:49:22PM -0400, Gregory D Hough wrote:
> Tlug,
> 
> With the absence of a FQDN, I've always been plagued with my machines 
> performing erroneous lookups. Do you know what I mean? Like when your 
> freshly installed distro does its first connection to google it tries:
  [snip] 
> Is this the wrong approach for a small home network? Is there a simple 
> name service short of full blown bind I could incorporate internally? I 
> mean I'm only dealing with three machines here and it's easy enough to 
> edit the hosts files accordingly.

Not sure how you're set up but if you're using a Linux box as a 
firewall/router, I would suggest looking at Dnsmasq:
     http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html.

I use this on a couple of small networks (5-15 machines) - it's easy to
set up and very low maintenance. Once set up on the Linux router, you
just point any other box (Linux/Windows/whatever) to the router for both
gateway and DNS.

Allen
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