On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 03:55 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Simon Slater wrote: > > Is there any overlap in the functions of NIS, bind and LDAP? Or are > > these mutually exclusive? > > I would be surprised if you needed either NIS or LDAP for a SOHO > network. However, I would say NIS and LDAP are similar, but bind (i.e. > DNS) serves a fundamentally different purpose. > > > When using DHCP, is /etc/hosts redundant? > > Well, you won't /need/ to use it. You configure a server to assign IPs > (DHCP) and automatically tell other computers which computer maps to > which IPs (DNS). > > > What is the optimal way to resolve names in a small but growing > > network? > > Depends how small, of course. But I would think a simple DNS/DHCP > server like dnsmasq is reasonable for such a network. See > http://www.linux.com/articles/149040 for a good start. > > Matt Flaschen > Thanks Matt. I saw dnsmasq mentioned in one how-to but didn't chase it since I was focussing on DHCP and bind. Now there are half a dozen boxes, but will increase to 2 dozen over the next year. Is this still within the scope of dnsmasq? As that article suggests I would like to have the server do the work rather than have the DSL router handle DHCP, firewall etc. Realising there are a variety of solutions, I don't want to come against Ockham's Razor. -- Regards, Simon Slater Registered Linux User #463789. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
