Reply to: Hardware DHCP,DNS

[RasputinDude]

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/dns.overview

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start

Looks interesting. Thanks Vetran

[vetran]

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/dns.overview

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start

[RasputinDude]

This is appalling behaviour but if you are buying a decent laptop it may be worth buying enough to take the order over £2000 to allow your company to claim the VAT back.

Is there such a thing as a decent laptop that costs under £2000?

[eek]

<cough> You could buy it on your personal credit card, expense it to the company at the full invoice price and pocket the £100 cashback. </cough>

This is appalling behaviour but if you are buying a decent laptop it may be worth buying enough to take the order over £2000 to allow your company to claim the VAT back.

[RasputinDude]

What do you need the DNS for? If as suggested above it is for internal usage for testing etc then why not just edit your hosts file? If you are using more than one machine that needs to resolve these addresses internally then fair enough but sounds like a pretty simple set up so though would mention...

There are anything between 4 and sometimes 12 hosts on the network (usually 4 - 8) - and that's not counting media clients and wifi radios, iphones etc), and I don't want to have to edit the hosts files of each one. I want a simple replacement for the software running on an old PC that I currently have to solve the problem.

The general consensus seems to be 'no'. That's fine, I'll go to plan B which is 'create one myself'.

[Clippy]

That's it. I've also got a 2800.

I can do this with a low powered PC easily, yes - I am already doing that with BIND and dhcpd. I was specifically looking for a box that I can just stuff away next to my router and forget about it.

OK. Not a specific recommendation, but HP currently have a promotion offering £100 cashback on their 250Gb ProLiant Microserver.


<cough> You could buy it on your personal credit card, expense it to the company at the full invoice price and pocket the £100 cashback. </cough>

[administrator]

What do you need the DNS for? If as suggested above it is for internal usage for testing etc then why not just edit your hosts file? If you are using more than one machine that needs to resolve these addresses internally then fair enough but sounds like a pretty simple set up so though would mention...

<bah>Really should read all replies before replying. So WHS ^</bah>

[ee61re]

Unless you have multiple subnets, etc, you should be able to resolve any hosts on the LAN using netbios, or if you really need to, you could add the relevant hostnames to the HOSTS file on each computer.

External DNS lookups would be passed by the router, onto your ISP (or you could set the router to use something like opendns, rather than your ISPs DNS)

I have DD-WRT on my router, and I don't *think* it does DNS itself, but I could be wrong.

[eek]

That's it. I've also got a 2800.

I can do this with a low powered PC easily, yes - I am already doing that with BIND and dhcpd. I was specifically looking for a box that I can just stuff away next to my router and forget about it.

I doubt they exist nowadays as the functionality is not something many people would want to use separate from a server or a different router.

What about a pogoplug or one of the other plug type devices running debian?

[RasputinDude]

I think that's the DNS servers the Draytek will query and act as a proxy for. I think the OP wanted something which will do internal DNS for him, ie. toaster.myco.com, fridge.myco.com?

That's it. I've also got a 2800.

I can do this with a low powered PC easily, yes - I am already doing that with BIND and dhcpd. I was specifically looking for a box that I can just stuff away next to my router and forget about it.

[b0redom]

@Platypus - I think that's the DNS servers the Draytek will query and act as a proxy for. I think the OP wanted something which will do internal DNS for him, ie. toaster.myco.com, fridge.myco.com?

My Vigor 2800 won't do that. I guess something like a hacked router running DD-WRT might? Alternatively a really low powered PC like a HP microserver might work, with a minimal appliance distribution like:

pfSense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Clippy]

For home and home office, yes.

I am using an old PC at the moment, but I'd rather have a hardware solution.

Erm, a PC is hardware.

[Platypus]

Hi Folks,

Can anyone recommend a (reasonably priced) hardware solution for local DHCP and DNS on a local area network. I'm not really bothered if it is a router as well as I'm pretty happy with my old Draytek.

My Draytek does DHCP itself. Probably DNS too although I haven't looked at that. What model do you have? If I were you I'd check the specs and see if what you have will do what you want.

EDIT: See
http://www.draytek.co.uk/support/kb_vigor_dns.html

[RasputinDude]

For home and home office, yes.

I am using an old PC at the moment, but I'd rather have a hardware solution.

[Clippy]

Is this for home?

If so and all it is going to be doing is DHCP & DNS then why not use and old (P4?) PC.