On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 11:48 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > You would only setup bind if you want to use a full domain setup on > your local network. Most people have no need of this. There are other benefits. Learning DNS (if that's good for you). Working around lousy DNS servers from your ISP. Most things that you can connect to a LAN will use DNS to resolve addresses, *nearly* most modern things will use MDNS, a lot of simpler/older things will only use DNS. > You probably don't want to maintain a hosts file for all the > computers on your network, especially if you are using DHCP. I'd say that unless your IPs are fixed to always be the same addresses (whatever method is used), using the hosts file will be the cause of some problems. Using multiple hosts file (one on each PC) just increases the work required. > DNS is generally way overkill and more work to manage. For most people probably, and using BIND would be. Though there are smaller DNS servers that can read your hosts file, then serve that data to all the other computers on your LAN. If you have a decent modern router, it may be able to do all of this for you, anyway. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 30 14:19:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
