Comments on: Setting up a DNS for the local network on the Ubuntu Hardy Heron server http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/ Computer related mumbo jumbo Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:13:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lani78 http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/#comment-50 lani78 Sun, 10 May 2009 18:27:49 +0000 http://lani78.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-50 Hi Todd, thank you for your kind words. You should be able to tell your DHCP-server to set the default domain to home.lan. With the dhcp3-server that are available for Ubuntu you can specify this with the following parameter: option domain-name "home.lan"; Hi Todd, thank you for your kind words.

You should be able to tell your DHCP-server to set the default domain to home.lan. With the dhcp3-server that are available for Ubuntu you can specify this with the following parameter:

option domain-name “home.lan”;

]]> By: John B http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/#comment-49 John B Sun, 10 May 2009 13:43:57 +0000 http://lani78.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-49 Worked for me with no pain, thanks also to Bill Day for his comment above “prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;” Thanks Lani Worked for me with no pain, thanks also to Bill Day for his comment above “prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;”

Thanks Lani

]]> By: Todd http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/#comment-43 Todd Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:51:09 +0000 http://lani78.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-43 Fantastic post, this was the simplest way to get things going for my home lan. 1 question: when I have visitors hop on to my network, i'd like to be able to tell them that the shared fileserver is located at "fileserver" or something like that. right now, unless they change their resolve.conf file, they'll have to type "fileserver.home.lan". is there anyway to ditch the home.lan and just allow searching by machine name? Fantastic post, this was the simplest way to get things going for my home lan. 1 question: when I have visitors hop on to my network, i’d like to be able to tell them that the shared fileserver is located at “fileserver” or something like that. right now, unless they change their resolve.conf file, they’ll have to type “fileserver.home.lan”. is there anyway to ditch the home.lan and just allow searching by machine name?

]]> By: lani78 http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/#comment-27 lani78 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:57:57 +0000 http://lani78.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-27 Thank you Bill for your comment. I'm glad that it worked for you. And thank you for the pointer on the dhcp problem. I'll leave that in your comment for now, as I don't have any first hand experience with it myself as I use a static IP for my server. Thank you Bill for your comment. I’m glad that it worked for you. And thank you for the pointer on the dhcp problem. I’ll leave that in your comment for now, as I don’t have any first hand experience with it myself as I use a static IP for my server.

]]> By: Bill Day http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/#comment-26 Bill Day Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:44:07 +0000 http://lani78.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-26 Thanks for an excellent, concise tutorial. Everything worked first time! One thing you might add is that it sometimes is necessary to add or uncomment "prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;" to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf if your server on your home lan gets its IP by DHCP. Otherwise, the DHCP server/router may overwrite your /etc/resolv.conf with its own IP address. Thanks for an excellent, concise tutorial. Everything worked first time! One thing you might add is that it sometimes is necessary to add or uncomment “prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;” to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf if your server on your home lan gets its IP by DHCP. Otherwise, the DHCP server/router may overwrite your /etc/resolv.conf with its own IP address.

]]> By: Make your DHCP server dynamically update your DNS records on Ubuntu Hardy Heron « Lani’s Weblog http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/setting-up-a-dns-for-the-local-network/#comment-12 Make your DHCP server dynamically update your DNS records on Ubuntu Hardy Heron « Lani’s Weblog Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:58:57 +0000 http://lani78.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-12 [...] Setting up a DNS for the local network on the Ubuntu Hardy Heron server Setting up a DHCP server on Ubuntu Hardy Heron [...] [...] Setting up a DNS for the local network on the Ubuntu Hardy Heron server Setting up a DHCP server on Ubuntu Hardy Heron [...]

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