Setup static DNS server

[Bike-and-snow]

Hello

I am trying to setup a "static" DNS server.

What I want to do is to create a server that offers the same functionality as /etc/hosts. For example:

mail.lan 192.168.0.10
files.lan 192.168.0.11
web.lan 192.168.0.12

At the moment we have lot's of servers (above is a simpified example) and they are listed in /etc/hosts on a lot of machines. And it's become unmanagable.

I've installed bind on a Ubuntu server. But I can't get my head around the syntax to add those static entries.

Should I continue with bind? If so does anyone know how to setup something really basic as my example above?

Thanks

[NetworkGuy]

BIND is the direction to go.

Look into using Webmin to setup your DNS server if you are having problems with the file(s) syntax.

[capscrew]

Hello

I am trying to setup a "static" DNS server.

What I want to do is to create a server that offers the same functionality as /etc/hosts...

There are alternatives to bind. Bind is WAY more complicated for what you seem to need. Have a look at DNSmasq for your network. It uses a centralized /etc/hosts file for name mapping.

It's a lightweight DHCP/DNS server for local networks and will act as a DNS forwarder for Internet DNS requests. In addition it will handle dynamic mapping for hostnames to DHCP IP addresses.

The main page for DNSmasq is http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html (http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html)

All the documentation is located at http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/ (http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/)

Read the man page all the way through and very carefully. It is available at: http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html (http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html)

And of course there is Wikipedia's write up at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq)

[Bike-and-snow]

Thanks. DNSmasq looks perfect. I'll give that a go.