Re: managing multiple machines
Petro said:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0800, nate wrote:
>> hanasaki said:
>> > Is there some way to have:
>> >
>> > - Machine is assigned a DHCP <random> IP
>> > - Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP
>> > into Bind with the hostname?
>>
>> i don't know how you'd use the MAC to map to a hostname. you
>> can use it to map to an ip ..but how would you determine the
>> hostname ?
>
> With a table.
>
> Look at dhcpd.conf, it does the same thing. You put the MAC, and
> the name of the machine (you can put the IP number, but we've
> always used the name). Then the machine makes a DNS lookup for
> that name and gets it's IP number.
now that i think about it you could extract the hostname
from the dhcp.leases file ..what you mentioned seems along
the line of statically assigning an ip. which isn't the way
i interpreted the poster's original question which asked
about assigning a random ip ..
nate
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