[clue-tech] Simple DNS solution

[Shawn Perry]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Bruce Ediger <bediger at stratigery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Todd A. Gibson wrote:
>
>> A solution to this problem is to run a DNS server inside my LAN to
>> resolve my domain name to the local IP.  But I've been avoiding this
>> solution because I don't want to have to spend the time relearning
>> BIND.  Is there an easier DNS solution I can pursue for my simple
>> needs?
>
> I tried BIND last year, not to solve any such interesting problem, though. It
> was way too slow for my purposes.
>
> I ended up using dnsmasq, which conveniently came with Slackware (runs my
> server).  Dnsmasq seemed easy to configure, and I think it will do what
> you want.  It acts as a regular ol' DNS client, so you can tell it to use
> the Qwest DNS servers, rather than all that BIND setup to use the root servers.

Seconded.  DD-WRT uses dnsmasq, and I rather like it.