[K12OSN] basic networking question

[Mike Ely]

Peter Hartmann wrote:
> I'm getting tired of having to keep manually adding fresh dns server
> addresses to machines and would rather that everything automatically
> use whatever our ISPs dhcp hands out.  I've tried setting   an
> internal machines dns server to the address of the gateway but it
> doesn't work the way it does at home with my Linksys router. What do I
> have to do to the gateway machine for that to happen? And are there
> any security implications I should know about?
> 
Peter,

If you've got a linux box that you can use for such things, try setting 
dnsmasq up on that and tell your DHCP server to point DNS at that 
machine.  You could use ISC BIND, but that's more of a hassle/security 
risk IMO.

Good luck,
Mike