[Leaplist] DNS intranet advice

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 08 November 2008 09:41:28 pm Dan Cherry wrote:
> I'm using bind9, and currently everything is working with 2 local zones.
>
> One called local., the other 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>
> Everything seems to be working okay (with the known exception of avahi,
> which seems to choke on .local)
>
> I'm about to change .local to something like .internal, .int, .home, or
> whatever.  But is there any advantage to using any particular name
> (remember this is internal behind a Linksys router)?  Or for that matter
> using two names such as 'myhome.internal'?
>
> It appears that I'll only need to change the names of .local in the two
> zones, and everything else should remain the same.
>
> Then a change to host names, mail configs, etc should complete the task.
>
> Any advice, or anything I'm missing?

All I can tell you is that within my house I've been using the TLD .cxm for 
about 8 years, and it's worked just fine on both bind and my current djbdns. 
I don't remember enough bind to give you any advice, but I'll be glad to 
offlist you my djbdns data file and some of the other files that determine 
the forward and reverse configurations.

>
> (Also, John, I'll consider trying djbdns, but if I switch, i'll have to
> start from scratch - vs. making two fairly simple changes to two files I'm
> already familiar with - so I'll need to find some decent tutorials.)

This simple djbdns starter isn't quite as good as I'd like it to be, but it 
can get you started with basic concepts and a simple djbdns setup:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/djbdns/index.htm

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
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