From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 20:19: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F213B37B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A217143E4A for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fozekizer@attbi.com) Received: from hume ([12.239.154.32]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020914031859.XWNI16829.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@hume> for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 03:18:59 +0000 Message-ID: <004c01c25b9d$0f34b220$32040101@hume> From: "Charles Pelletier" To: References: <001401c25b9a$eeb27840$32040101@hume> <005901c25b9d$033d3050$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Subject: Re: dns server Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:16:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG do you think it would be worth my time and trouble to at least learn the rubrics of setting up an internal dns server on my network? the end goal is to be able to do this on a network that i am in charge of setting up at the school where i teach. if you think yes, then, can you point me to what i need to be looking at? thanks, --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Charles Pelletier" ; Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: Re: dns server > > curious: > > what advantage is there in building my own dns server over just setting > > static IP's for my internal network? do the advantages really only exist > for > > larger networks (my internal home network consists of only 3 computers > other > > than the gateway)? > > --charlie pelletier > > --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) > > It really depends on what purposes your 3 computers are used for. If > they're all just Windows machines that you use to surf the net, then you > don't really need an internal DNS. > > However, if some of your internal machines are servers (running FreeBSD, of > course), then it may be useful to have an internal DNS. > > For example, let's take the case of my home network. I have 5 computers > behind my FreeBSD gateway/firewall machine. 3 are Windows PCs used to surf > and do email; the other two are FreeBSD servers. Both of these two servers > are web servers where I develop web sites and web-enabled database > applications. Having an internal DNS allows me to assign "real" names to > these sites so I can surf to them with my Windows PC, instead of surfing to > the IP address and then choosing which site I wanted to access on that > server. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message