Hello! I have a whole bunch of stuff with static IPs on my home network and for a long time I've wanted to give them each names so I don't have to use IPs everywhere all the time. I've tried to set up a bind server natively before on a machine but never got it to work :(.

 

Does anyone have any guides or recommendations for what I can do now that I have this nice unraid server? I have seen some guides for DNS+AdBlocker or pi-holes, etc, but I'm completely uninterested in those extra bits. I just want a name server I can configure my router to use, and that's it.

Unclear why you would even need anything special for this to happen. I reserve IP by MAC address in the router, and make Unraid the local Master with the Dynamix Local Master plugin.

 

Maybe if you could describe your network and the machines on it in more detail.

 

Also maybe something here for you:

 

I'm definitely not looking for something special, but I don't know how to do it at all (aside from learning how to run my own bind server, but I'm at least hoping that if that's the answer then there's some guide for unraid, but I'm not finding it).

 

The Dynamix Local Master plugin, and the related thread you shared, look specific to windows networking, unless I'm misreading it. I have a more generic desire, and I have a bunch of linux machines, and an android phone. My goal is to make certain machines, which are connected to my router, accessible by names instead of IPs.

 

So for example, my unraid server might be on 192.168.1.4. So every time I want to configure something about it, I'm typing that in my browser. But I would like to be able to type "http://unraid" or something like that. I have a bunch of stuff connected to my network (a 3d printer, some other linux machines, and even a VM running on my main desktop) which I'd like to be able to reach by name from other machines, sometimes in browser and sometimes on the commandline, like ssh-ing into a machine by name instead of IP address.

 

I am not confident, but I've been under the impression I basically need to set up some kind of DNS server, and configure my router to use that server for DNS requests, in order to accomplish this, which is what I've tried to do with "bind" in the past but never really got it to work.

 

Does that help clarify?

Pihole docker should work, pls found / ask in that post thread.

12 hours ago, Vr2Io said:

Pihole docker should work, pls found / ask in that post thread.

 

I'm not sure I understand. What I've read about pihole makes it seem like you can't configure the dns that much, and then I'd have a whole pihole instance running unnecessarily, too. And what post thread are you suggesting I ask in?