Comment on Can we possibly experiment with the DNS on our own, at a micro level ?

• DecentM@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, you already have a laptop, so here’s a rough outline. Do research around each topic, instead of just doing them, as you’ll learn things that you can use as a basis for the next step.

  1. Install some form of Linux, either desktop or server distro. Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.
  2. Learn how to SSH into it, and install packages from the default repos.
  3. Install a web server, such as nginx and get the page to show up on your PC when you enter the IP address of the server (the laptop is now called the server at this point - servers are any computer that you use to run unattended services from other computers, so laptops can be called servers too)
  4. Install a recursive DNS server and configure your router to advertise it during DHCP.
  5. Get that same html file to show up on your PC by entering a custom name in your browser (something like mylaptopserver.local

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  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Debian would be handier for servers, OpenSUSE is handier for sysadmin stuff, iirc.

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    • DecentM@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes but for a complete beginner, the first project won’t last too worryingly long anyway, so better to learn and have fun. Even a stock Ubuntu install could act as a server and it would have at least something familiar to help manage someone’s first server.

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      • MastKalandar@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Can we do the entire work from the command line ?

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