From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 21: 9:25 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 74B7637B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E143443E6E for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8E49MuF050844 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:09:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g8E49Mo3050841; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:09:22 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:09:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Charles Pelletier Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dns server In-Reply-To: <001401c25b9a$eeb27840$32040101@hume> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Charles Pelletier wrote: > 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)? It sounds like you're combining a couple of things there. DNS is for IP-to-name conversion and vice versa, but it sounds like you may also be talking about a DHCP server. DNS can be non-trivial. Get the O'Reilly "grasshopper" book: "DNS And BIND". DHCP...dunno. Not as bad to set up, I'd think, and it really can be handy to not have to juggle static IP addresses every time you set up a new machine or move things around. For larger networks--more than a dozen machines, say--it's pretty much necessary. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message