Re: DHCP + DNS questions
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for all clients I connect to them, except for one small detail: the dhcp server seems unable to add dns entries. (With other words, everyone gets an IP and internet, but I'm unable to get things to work internally, don't know who has what IP). In my experience dnsmasq is much better suited for this kind of setup: 1. install it (and get rid of bind and isc-dhcp-server) 2. list your hosts in /etc/hosts 3. configure the simplest DHCP network in /etc/dnsmasq.conf 4. Enjoy :) At step 3. you might need to set up static leases for your machines as well, but I'm not sure... Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Hi, Sorry for replying so late, but only last evening I had a chance to try it out. I removed both bind server and isc-dhcp-server and installed dnsmasq. It was very easy to setup. Thank you very much for the reply.
Re: DHCP + DNS questions
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for all clients I connect to them, except for one small detail: the dhcp server seems unable to add dns entries. (With other words, everyone gets an IP and internet, but I'm unable to get things to work internally, don't know who has what IP). In my experience dnsmasq is much better suited for this kind of setup: 1. install it (and get rid of bind and isc-dhcp-server) 2. list your hosts in /etc/hosts 3. configure the simplest DHCP network in /etc/dnsmasq.conf 4. Enjoy :) At step 3. you might need to set up static leases for your machines as well, but I'm not sure... Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Hi, Sorry for replying so late, but only last evening I had a chance to try it out. I removed both bind server and isc-dhcp-server and installed dnsmasq. It was very easy to setup. Thank you very much for the reply.
Re: DHCP + DNS questions
On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for all clients I connect to them, except for one small detail: the dhcp server seems unable to add dns entries. (With other words, everyone gets an IP and internet, but I'm unable to get things to work internally, don't know who has what IP). In my experience dnsmasq is much better suited for this kind of setup: 1. install it (and get rid of bind and isc-dhcp-server) 2. list your hosts in /etc/hosts 3. configure the simplest DHCP network in /etc/dnsmasq.conf 4. Enjoy :) At step 3. you might need to set up static leases for your machines as well, but I'm not sure... Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
DHCP + DNS questions
Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for all clients I connect to them, except for one small detail: the dhcp server seems unable to add dns entries. (With other words, everyone gets an IP and internet, but I'm unable to get things to work internally, don't know who has what IP). This is my first setup of this kind on GNU Linux, so I'm sure I made mistakes on almost every step, so please bare with me on this. I have attached the config files, again, they only work separately (clients get IP, and DNS is getting resolved for clients, but I cannot ping a device.home.net for example). I have to mention that I've rewritten them many times upon trying and retrying different guides I found on the internet :(. The current config still works tho, for clients who don't need local DNS. My /var/log/syslog file, upon adding a new device to the network says: Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.55 for client 14:7d:c5:01:df:8c is duplicate on 192.168.1.0/24 Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: ns.home.net: temporary name server failure Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.53 from 14:7d:c5:01:df:8c via eth0 Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.53 to 14:7d:c5:01:df:8c via eth0 Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Unable to add forward map from workphone.home.net. to 192.168.1.53: not found Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file. Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file. Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Wrote 9 leases to leases file. Does anyone know what this means and/or how to solve it? Thank you in advance, Catalin db.192 Description: Binary data db.home.net Description: Binary data dpcpd.conf Description: Binary data named.conf.local Description: Binary data
