I spent the morning Googling about the question of how to put a local DNS on Mac OS X. It doesn't appear to be all that easy to do because the key program for domain name serving on Unix is called bind (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon), and it doesn't come installed on Mac OS X. There are several ways to install it, but none is too easy.
The cheapest (free) seems to be to install the Darwin open source tools and use apt-get to grab bind. Then the BSD docs [1] have information about how to set it up. For $15 there's a program called DNS Enabler [2] that looks to be pretty complete. It does come installed on Mac OS X Server and is really easy to get working [3]. Tenon's iTools [4] package is not free, but it does come with DNS. [1] <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ network-dns.html> [2] <http://cutedgesystems.com/software/DNSEnabler/> [3] <http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/networkingvpn.html> [4] <http://www.tenon.com/products/itools-osx/> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
