Internal/local DNS with a Netgear DG834PN?

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.

Any ideas?
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Andy Hardy. PGP ID: 0xA62A4849

"Andy Hardy" <junkmail@[127.0.0.1]> 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 message <fMcDf.7662$Cf7.7283@trnddc06> , Travis M.
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>"Andy Hardy" <junkmail@[127.0.0.1]> 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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Andy Hardy. PGP ID: 0xA62A4849

In article <zXAG5WEiIV3DFApd@[127.0.0.1]>, 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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