** Terry Coles <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> [2011-03-11 13:40]: > On Thursday 10 Mar 2011, Terry Coles wrote: > > We have a system at work that uses a Linux box (Live boot) running some > > data gathering tools. This information is written to a web page and > > served up to a Windows box connected 1:1, (eg no other devices) for > > analysis. So far so good. > > > > At present the Windows box provides DHCP and the Linux box advertises it's > > hostname. What we would really like to do is get the current Linux box to > > provide DHCP and DNS. Can anyone point me at a suitable tutorial or > > guidance to explain how to set up and configure such a system? > > > > Having the Windows box do DHCP and DNS is OK, but is likely to cause us > > problems downstream, hence the query. > > Replying to myself. > > Thanks for the suggestions to date (the overwhelming support for dnsmasq). > However, when I related this to my colleage at work he said he couldnt see > why > this (or bind) was needed because when he enabled udhcpd, he found that it > maintains a list of all hosts on the network so why couldn't that be used? > > I didn't get a chance to look at it this morning, so I couldn't answer him, > but I could bear to know if what he's suggesting is possible. > > Any takers? ** end quote [Terry Coles]
I've not really used either, but it looks as though dnsmasq does both dns forwarding and dhcp address allocation, whereas udhcpd just does the dhcp address allocation bit. Personally I use bind9 and dhcp3-server myself and don't find either that complicated for a basic setup. Then again that's part of my day job and I've got the O'Reilly DNS and Bind and Sendmail tomes on my shelves! Not that I've used Sendmail in a long, long while as I've used Exim since it became my own choice (i.e. not administering AIX servers). I suspect for a home network it is simply a case of whether you need DNS forwarding as well. You can configure dhcp to point directly to the ISPs DNS servers rather than forwading from a local box if you prefer to use udhcpd. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
