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Re: DNS question

From Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: DNS question
Date 2018-07-22 18:31 +0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <pj280o$ku6$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 22.7.18 18:11, wg wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> How can I provide the IP addresses of servers inside a network?
> 
> I have several Win workstaions which must access linux servers using
> their  names rather
> than IP addresses.
> I do not want to edit windows hosts file.
> 
> A server acts as internet gateway/firewall.
> 
> Do I have to setup a liocal DNS (named)?
> Any advise would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Wolf


Maybe the easiest solution to this is dnsmasq, which serves
the names from an outside server and from the hosts file
of the computer it is running on. It is by far easier to
configure than other DNS servers.

In addition, dnsmasq can work as the BOOTP/DHCP server for
the local network.

-- 

-TV

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DNS question wg <wg1@gmx.net> - 2018-07-22 17:11 +0200
  Re: DNS question William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-07-22 15:26 +0000
  Re: DNS question Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2018-07-22 18:31 +0300
    Re: DNS question Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2018-07-22 19:04 +0000
  Re: DNS question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-07-22 23:51 +0200
    Re: DNS question "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 18:49 -0400
      Re: DNS question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-07-23 03:18 +0200
      Re: DNS question Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-07-24 11:14 +0200
  Re: DNS question wg <wg1@gmx.net> - 2018-08-11 21:03 +0200

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