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You can switch your machines around and test each machine in turn as say, just by changing the name-address assignments in DNS Enabler. For example, you may have a few other machines containing projects at various stages of development. This is a simple thing to do and it takes only a couple of minutes to set up, but it can be made even more useful. If you've also set up an alias like you can also hit that server by typing something like into a web browser. This way, all the local machines can now access the mail, web, and ftp servers via their domain names. You can now point all the other machines on the local network to use 10.0.1.201 as their name server (via the DNS Server setting in their Network Preferences). Important Note : On the machine that you're running DNS Enabler, the DNS Server setting in Network Preferences should always point to itself. You run DNS Enabler on the 10.0.1.201 machine and set it up as shown. To simulate real world conditions and not have to change your code when you move to a production environment, you want to access the servers via domain names, e.g.,, as shown above. Let's say that the local network is on subnet 10.0.1.x and you've decided to have a web server, a mail server, and an ftp server on a static IP address 10.0.1.201, plus other servers on 10.0.1.202 and 203. Scenario - imagine that you've set up a local network behind a router or an Airport Base Station, e.g., for doing testing or web development. Introduction - A Basic DNS Configuration for the Local Network You'll then get the config files, libraries and the other stuff that will work with Monterey. Once you have launched the latest version of DNS Enabler, save the current config using the File->Save menu item, do a De-Install from the Help menu, which removes all the previous cruft, and then quit and come back to the app. Upgrade Notes, if you’ve used DNS Enabler before and didn’t do a clean install of Monterey: It will automatically generate the nf file, the forward mapping files for each domain, the reverse mapping files for each network, and all the resource and reverse pointer records. It is designed to allow a user to set up domain name information quickly using a single window, in the fastest time.ĭNS Enabler provides the interface to allow users to specify domain name-to-address mappings for machines on the Internet, as well as their aliases or MX records (e.g., which machines act as mail servers for the domain).Īdditionally, it allows users to set the other domain and zone information, e.g., Time-To-Live Intervals, that determine how long these information remain valid. DNS Enabler can set up a fully-functioning Domain Name Server (DNS) on a plain Mac OS X machine.