Re: DHCP and DNS
The way I understand it, D-DNS is EXACTLY what you are looking for. This
will provide your internal hosts that are assigned an address from DHCP with
a DNS entry as well...
Will
----- Original Message -----
From: Olaf Conradi <oc@dds.nl>
To: Will Lowe <harpo@udlug.org>
Cc: Debian Users List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: DHCP and DNS
> +---[ On Jul 15, Will Lowe scribbled ]---
> | > How can I tell the nameserver which IP addresses DHCP has assigned to
> | > the hosts so the names get resolved to the correct IP?
> |
> | Probably the only way I can think of is to remake the dns databases and
> | restart named every time you renew a DHCP lease. I don't know if dhcpd
> | allows you to run a command after a lease is assigned, but you could
just
> | run a cron job which remakes the .db files every five minutes, and tell
> | people that thier hostnames won't resolve for five minutes after they
> | boot.
> |
> | ... this would mean that you'd have to set your TTL for your DNS entries
> | to five minutes, which might get out of hand. Is your LAN connected to
> | the Internet?
> +--->8
>
> It's a private LAN (192.168.) within our organization, but in the
> future we might connect it to the internet.
>
> I just found something on this site about Dynamic DNS:
> http://simmons.starkville.ms.us/tips/081797/
>
> But i'm not sure if it's usefull for me.
>
>
> -Olaf
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