BIND to the Rescue

I have been too busy to do much development on my own stuff with Barcamp Bangkok taking up most of my free time lately. But I am ramping up for some serious development time after Barcamp finishes.

The fact that Microsoft hosed my hosts file has meant that I cannot access my SVN repository from my desktop development environment–the only one that is on a fast computer. So I have installed BIND to run DNS on my development network. Yes, running and maintaining a DNS server is probably overkill, but MS forced me onto this corner.

BIND to the rescue! Yay! Now I have to spend a bit of time to remember how to write zone files–not that hard as I recall. There’s probably a lot of sample zone files out there already–I should search for one and set up DNS while I am on the train.

I wonder how often people have set up DNS servers while on the train from Laos to Bangkok? Probably not many. It may be a world first.