Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-11 Thread Terry Coles
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

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-11 Thread Chris Dennis
On 11/03/11 13:39, Terry Coles wrote: 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

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-11 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 11/03/11 14:45, Chris Dennis wrote: If it's really just two computers talking to each other, you could just give each one a fixed IP address, e.g. 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, and they can talk to each other without requiring DHCP or DNS. Same thought occurred to me too. You could also

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-11 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 11/03/11 13:39, Terry Coles wrote: 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

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Mar 2011, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: udhcpd is just a standard DHCP server. All DHCP servers keep a list of hosts they've given leases to, either in a database or a text file. They have to, in order to work properly! The issue is, how would you get it so that ping mybox worked?

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-10 Thread Chris Dennis
On 10/03/11 17:23, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, 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

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 10 Mar 2011, Chris Dennis wrote: dnsmasq[1] is relatively simple to work with, and is probably available in your favourite distro. [1] http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html Thanks. That looks like a good start. -- Terry Coles 64 bit

Re: [Dorset] DNS on an isolated (1:1) network

2011-03-10 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 08:17:20 pm John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 10/03/11 18:59, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 10 Mar 2011, Chris Dennis wrote: dnsmasq[1] is relatively simple to work with, and is probably available in your favourite distro. [1]