DNS for home lab ideas

[SpyderChiken]

I'm looking for an easy-to-setup DNS server for my home network. I can remember the IPs of all the different things running in the house, but the kids and GF can't, so I am looking for a way to do this network-wide and not device-to-device because that would take forever if there were a change.

[John Reactor]

if it is only for your GF and Kids,  I would try adding alises to ips in hosts file first.

[Needfuldoer]

7 minutes ago, SpyderChiken said:

I'm looking for an easy-to-setup DNS server for my home network. I can remember the IPs of all the different things running in the house, but the kids and GF can't, so I am looking for a way to do this network-wide and not device-to-device because that would take forever if there were a change.

PiHole can do it.

 

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/howto-using-pi-hole-as-lan-dns-server/533

 

Just now, John Reactor said:

if it is only for your GF and Kids,  I would try adding alises to ips in hosts file first.

Eew. No, no, no, no, no. That's a pain in the butt to maintain.

[OddOod]

12 minutes ago, John Reactor said:

I would try adding alises to ips in hosts file first.

11 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

That's a pain in the butt to maintain

What about a happy median? Give everything useful hostnames. Easy and effective.