Re: Apache virtual hosts, and MS clients

Justin C wrote:

Looks like I'll have to set up DNS. I've avoided it for about ten years
(all static IPs, all *nix clients with fully up to date /etc/hosts -
there aren't many client machines), but it looks like time to bite the
bullet.

I found it pretty straight forward, but I seem to remember being confused by the HOWTOs. I worked from a copy of the O'Reilly BIND book, which is excellent.

Like you, my LAN is all on static IPs. Setting up one zone isn't hard. There is a benefit to running a DNS - you can use it as a name cache. Simply set it up as authoritative for your domain and to forward all other requests to your ISP (or other) servers. Then you point all hosts on your LAN at your own DNS and it will forward requests for which it is not authoritative and cache the replies.


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