DNS on LAN?

[John M. Długosz]

I'm not using a Domain, Active Directory, or the like. I'm using local IP addresses given out by my gateway, such as 192.168.1.75.

How do I make it publish its Name, so other machines on my LAN can find it using the name? Out of the box, doing a
ping freenas
doesn't resolve, and
ping freenas.local
resolves to 69.16.143.110, which is not what I expected.

—John

 

[pirateghost]

Use your router/gateway to manage your DNS. We don't know your setup so we couldn't tell you how to do it. I have a windows active directory domain and have all my DNS functions handled by my domain controllers.

Most routers give you an option to make static entries, host names, etc.

 

[Whattteva]

If you are using a Tomato-based router, you can do what I've done.
I just put all my DNS names in my router in a file called hosts in the jffs file system that gets loaded by dnsmasq during bootup with addn-hosts parameter.

 

[John M. Długosz]

I'm using the LAN/WAN gateway that came with my TimeWarner broadband service. It's made by Motorola, and it's the box with the DHCP server.