Roger Searle wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
What would be the best way of providing dns for the local network - can
IPCop do it? If so how? I'm missing something...
yes, allocate all the machines a fixed ip address via dhcp, and put
all the host names into hosts (this is all done via the ipcop gui).
ok thanks - i was partly doing that before. i'll do that for all the
machines now.
so is this all that needs to be done for having dnsmasq via ipcop?
the documentation is sketchy (or i didn't look in the right place) on
this.
Just by way of providing the solution to this, indeed I do have name
resolution functioning on this network via the ipcop box, be that
dnsmasq or not I am not sure as I never located any definitive info
about this (aside from plenty of people saying "it's not working"). As
Nick indicated, converting any dynamic leases to fixed leases (ipcop's
services > dhcp server menu) as well as adding an entry to the hosts
file (via the ipcop services > edit hosts menu) is enough to do get
pinging and file sharing functional between any 2 windows and/or linux
machines.
Of course, it is more fun to ssh to the ipcop box and use vi to edit the
hosts file. Not sure how (I mean, where) I might create the fixed
leases though - maybe someone might be able to tell me about the
relevant file(s) for that?
Thanks for the help in getting this sorted.
Cheers,
Roger
