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I have a small home network that just got larger (new roommate, my existing roommate got a laptop (on top of her computer), my friends coming over with laptops, etc.).
I'd like to run a local DNS server for lookups of my local network stuff (fileserver.local
, windowsTV.local
, machineA.local
, machineB.local
, appletv.local
). I used to have a business line with a static IP, and run bind/named internally. However, now I have a normal account.
My ISP's DNS servers are constantly changing (for whatever reasons my ISP doesn't like to keep the same IP range for long). I need my local DNS to be automatically updated to use my ISP's DNS for external traffic, but be able to maintain an internal DNS server (getting to update the hosts file is being a hassle with every new machine on top of rebuilding existing machines with win7 or Ubuntu 9.04).
Additionally, My ISP's DNS servers often crash or become unresponsive. Are there any open DNS servers that are reliable (I don't want to reconfig every day) that I could use as my primary, then if those fail, then use my ISP's?
UPDATE: Also looking for each workstation to be able to use dhcp to connect, but instead of getting ISP DNS servers, getting my internal one....
The new Google DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in case anyone was wondering... – Tmanok – 2018-02-13T21:03:15.440
2There are at least 2 questions here: Local DNS config, public DNS servers. Post 2 questions next time. – hyperslug – 2009-09-23T19:09:11.663
18I agree, but i'm looking for an overall solution. each question on it's own would have a correct answer, but may not mesh, i'm trying to look for solution to both problems that works together. – Roy Rico – 2009-09-23T20:51:45.463
@RoyRico Did you ever find a good solution? I am trying to do the exat same thing witha Tomato router and am running into walls at every direction. – Jeff – 2012-12-15T03:04:25.657
If you have a linux box, here is how to setup DNSMASq in details -- http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/providing-dhcp-and-dns-services-with-dnsmasq/
– xpt – 2014-06-15T23:29:25.487