Hardware DHCP,DNS

[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>

[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'.

[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]

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?

[vetran]

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

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

[RasputinDude]

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

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

Looks interesting. Thanks Vetran