[aclug-L] Re: DNS-domain name for home network?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:45:42PM -0500, Carl D Cravens wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Larry Bottorff wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to allow my home network to respond to a name/domain name
> > (www.mypgnet.com) in http, etc, instead of always typing in the IP address
> > (192.168.10.1). I won't be on the Internet, just pretending to have my own.
> > I know I need to do something with DNS, but I've got not much s.a.
> > experience. I'm using RH6.2
> 
> You don't need DNS for that... you just need to put entries in /etc/hosts
> and copy it on each machine on the network.  (If you have Windows
> machines, the hosts file is in \windows\hosts and has the same format as
> the Unix one.  Even when you have DNS, having a minimal hosts file is nice
> for when your DNS stops working for some reason.
> 
> (Now imagine thousands of hosts all sharing the same hosts file and
> you'll understand why DNS was invented.)

yes... you can do that... but IMHO, DNS is much easier... at least once it's
working (and getting it working for a private LAN really isn't that hard--I
did it years ago before I even really had a clue what DNS was for).

If you have more than just a couple machines, DNS quickly becomes easier to
administrate... and it becomes easier faster when you have Windows or other
non-Unix OSes, too.


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