[conspire] internal rerouting problem

[Ehud Kaldor]

or maybe i misunderstood. reading further changed my perspective. will
update.

Ehud


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com> wrote:

> reading some dnsmasq explanation, it sounds more of a local dns cache (like
> unbound?), and not something that could serve the entire network. i do not
> want to edit all the computers' hosts file, and even if i do - i will need
> to change it every time i take a laptop outside and back inside, to use
> external IP and then internal. i need a DNS function for the entire network,
> and only for this function. did i misunderstand dnsmasq?
>
> Ehud
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Tony Godshall <tony at of.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Look at dnsmasqd.  It's a nice local DHCP server/masq rule/caching DNS.
>>
>> If all you need is the DNS redirection, you can comment out the DHCP and
>> masq in /etc/dnsmasqd.conf (IIRC).  And you set up any extra DNS entries
>> there as well.  It's way easier to deal with than traditional DNS servers
>> and the config file has plenty of inline documentation and commented
>> examples.
>>
>> Best Regards.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 14:40, Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> got a not-exactly-linux question, but with the expertise here, it might
>>> be worth asking:
>>>
>>> i am setting up a local wordpress on one of my ubuntus. it is to serve
>>> externally. now, the way wordpress works is that you set the address
>>> ("www.ehud.example") and it is accessible only by that. so, if i set it to
>>> "localhost" or the internal address, it will be accessible only from the
>>> local network, and if i set it to www.ehud.example it will be accessible
>>> only from the outside, and not locally.
>>> so, the only thing i can think of is to set some local redirection
>>> internally, to redirect www.ehud.example to the local address.
>>>
>>> i am not too familiar with how to setup DNS. tried briefly to set bind9
>>> on the server and set it as DNS on the router, but it seems a lot of work
>>> for such a small task. the d-link dir-655 router i use does not run its own
>>> DNS, so cannot use that.
>>>
>>> any other ideas? is there an external DNS service (like opendns) that
>>> allow you to set local redirections as well?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Ehud
>>>
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