Hi Richard.
> yes, "don't" :)
True.
> You could write a simple script to modify dhcpd.conf as needed, but I set
I don't recommend that. A little typo or unexpected error and all your clients are unable to resolve or even get a lease - depending on the errors the script introduces. This happens to me some years ago :/
Very true :-) long time back I did this on my firewalls http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache-x.html
I installed djbdns/dnscache from DJB some years ago because of this problem. It gives you a DNS cache too so you clients DNS lookups will speed up, especially if your line to your ISP is nearly saturated. I used a real old Pentium 120 with 64MB RAM and give the DNS cache about 30 MB and that was a good thing (tm) for my small network (5 active users). Although the djbdns is a old package, it is reliable and secure with a small memory footprint. (It is not in the ports because of the copyright issues I guess).
you could use bind that comes with the base also :-)
Thats also a solution. But for small LANs I recommend djbdns because I am a "DJB fanatic" ;) HTH, Andreas. -- Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions? Calvin : Do I look like a sissy?
