[Swansea Hackspace] Raspberry pi dns server

[Jon Gittoes]

Hi Graham,

Sounds fairly straight forward.

I suggest dnsmasq, its small, light and will allow you to put in your own
entries for certain servers ie the Oregon ones.

If you need more control over the DNS then powerdns is a better option as
it allows you to plugin your own custom back ends, but its probably
overkill for your project.

Good luck

Jon
On 23 Oct 2014 02:05, "Graham Owens" <grahamowensuk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys (gender neutral version)
>
> I have a query, and hoped one of you could help me out.
>
> Short version:
> How to install a local DNS server on a raspberry pi for use at home, dhcp
> would be nice too but not essential.  How to route a dns enquiry to a local
> server.
>
> Long version:
> I bought a weather station (£39 reduced from £199) made by oregon
> scientific.  Have read the reviews and it seems to boil down to this:  the
> hardware is okay, gets the job done etc, but it has no local output, it
> ONLY connects to oregon's servers, then the user can view the data with an
> phone app, or online in a webbrowser.  The problem, oregons servers are
> CRAP, and thats as polite as i can be about them.  They go down for WEEKS
> at a time, during which the user cannot obtain any info from their own
> weather station, and it is not cached locally waiting for a connection
> either the data is just GONE.  There is just no weather during these
> outages.
>
> the plan:
> Install raspberry pi with dns server.  Point dns requests for the oregon
> server back to the pi.  Install a LAMP config on the pi.  Use wireshark to
> work out whats going back and forward, write a php script on the pi to grab
> the data locally, and if i can be bothered forward it to oregon.
> Store the data locally, uploading to my real online server in 10minute
> batches, including any cached data stored while waiting for connectivity.
>
> Profit.
>
> Am i going about this all wrong?  I have seen people binning these weather
> stations because they are so unreliable at connecting with oregons servers,
> but i havnt seen this attempted yet with it.  Plus whats not to like about
> having a local dns server that i can reroute.
>
> Thanks
>
> G
>
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