[TriLUG] OT: Hijacked Browser Typos

[Scott Chilcote]

Hi Tanner,

I did not mean to imply that I thought this solution would be a lot of 
work.  It would just require that I dedicate one of my systems 24/7 to 
providing this service.  Currently we have no need to use that much 
electricity.

I understand that a modified router can perform this service, so that 
seems like a better way to handle it for our home network.  Unlike our 
home systems, we leave that running all the time.

Thanks,

     Scott C.


Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Thanks William.
> 
> David, what tweaks do you think he would need to do?
>> From the description of his environment:
> 
> "I use four machines at home and a notebook when I travel, so setting up
> a local caching DNS would be a lot of solution for a little problem."
> 
> This is almost the exact same setup I have at home.
> I am not currently using my own caching name server
> but have in the past.  The steps to set it up are as follows:
> 
> 1. Install the caching nameserver package on a machine.
> 2. Start the caching nameserver.
> 3. Go into your router config and specify the IP of that machine as
> the first name server.
> 
> Note this all assumes the use of DHCP to get addresses (which,
> I believe, is a fair assumption).  But, even with stretching it
> far enough to get a second item out of "starting" the name server,
> it is *not* a lot of work.  It's extremely simple to do.  And, if
> you use a linux based router (i.e. WRT54GL with OpenWRT)
> you can install the caching nameserver directly on the router
> itself.
> 
> I fail to understand how people can think of something so simple
> as being overly complicated.  Please indicate what "tweaks" you
> are referring to.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner