"Andy Hardy" wrote in message
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> I have the DG834PN which is providing DHCP services to my mixed
> network of Windows and Linux boxes. It is also providing DNS
> services for the Internet as it forwards to my ISPs' DNS
> servers.

You are providing DNS services for the internet? The whole
thing?



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Travis in Shoreline Washington

In article , Andy Hardy says...
> I have the DG834PN which is providing DHCP services to my mixed network
> of Windows and Linux boxes. It is also providing DNS services for the
> Internet as it forwards to my ISPs' DNS servers. My internal machines
> have the router address as a DNS server.
>
> I would like to have internal DNS services i.e. for my Windows and Linux
> boxes to be able to perform ping, etc. between themselves without each
> machine maintaining a hosts file.
>
> At the moment, I have one of the Linux boxes performing DNS duties for
> my internal domain and it is set up to forward to the router.
>
> As the Netgear router is always switched-on, I would like it to perform
> these duties - unfortunately, I've not worked out how to do this or
> whether this is possible.
>
It isn't. You're doing it the right way with the setup you have.


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In message , Travis M.
writes
>"Andy Hardy" wrote in message
>news:zXAG5WEiIV3DFApd@[127.0.0.1]
>> I have the DG834PN which is providing DHCP services to my mixed
>> network of Windows and Linux boxes. It is also providing DNS
>> services for the Internet as it forwards to my ISPs' DNS servers.
>
>You are providing DNS services for the internet? The whole thing?

Hm... not quite what I meant! The router answers internally made DNS
queries by forwarding them to the ISPs' name servers.
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