A Simple Dns Server for a SOHO Network
By Steve Schnepp on Monday, 10 August 2009, 20:00 - sysadmin - Permalink
I'm in search of a very simple DNS Server for a small network. It should be :
- recursive & caching (can be used as a proxy)
- very simple administration (parsing /etc/hosts would be perfect, raw DNS zones like BIND would be a little bit overkill)
- quite lightweight (aka no dependency on an SQL engine like MySQL, such as MyDNS)
- Seamless integration to Windows lookups (nmblookup) via proxying functions (DNS to/from NMB)
Comments
Me too.
A problem: it means a dedicated server, always on, and another point of failure (server down, no network). For a home network, I’d like to see it integrated into the ADSL box (which is a DHCP server already). For the moment, I live with manual hosts files.
Does a distributed DNS exist, where any Linux/Win/Mac on the network can be "the" DNS ?
The things I discovered so far are :