Hi, having trouble with networking

"Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
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> tom wrote:
> > "Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
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> >
> >>Paul Black wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Once you've got this working you can then look at setting up DHCP for
> >>>your internal network along with a DNS server so that the internal
> >>>Windows machines are not tied to the ISP configuration. But you can
> >>>leave that for another day.
> >>>
> >>
> >>For the DNS server forget BIND. It is much too heavy for the
> >>simple task at hand. Use dnsmasq instead.
> >>
> >>--
> >>
> >>Tauno Voipio
> >>tauno voipio (at) iki fi
> >>
> >
> >
> > I am not so sure that dnsmasq works or is supported.
> >
> > Whatever the documentation for this application is
> > very light.
> >
>
> I'm running using dnsmasq just now.
>
> It is able to cache and forward the DNS responses from the
> upstream server and also internal network DNS data from
> /etc/hosts of the router host, so you can handle all
> the DNS in the internal network by maintaining the
> /etc/hosts file and pointing all the internal computers
> to use services from dnsmasq.
>
> The one-pager of dnsmasq is well sufficient for the
> quite simple job it has to do. BIND has plenty more
> of documentation, as it is much more complicated
> to set up.
>
> --
>
> Tauno Voipio
> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>
>

Well I have dnsmasq installed on a Woody
distro, and I removed it. I still dont know what
the program does as I noticed no changes to the
network, before and after I removed it.

tom wrote:
>
> Well I have dnsmasq installed on a Woody
> distro, and I removed it. I still dont know what
> the program does as I noticed no changes to the
> network, before and after I removed it.

Maybe you failed to make the hosts on the local
network point their DNS requests to the host
running dnsmasq.

My router (Debian Woody, 2.4.27 kernel)
runs the daemon and the workstations
use it to get the DNS services both from the
ISP and the internal names from the router's
/etc/hosts.

Install the daemon back, make the other computers
to use it as DNS server and check that both
internal and external names are resolved. That's it.

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi