Re: DNS + DHCP

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>:
> How do these two play nice together?
> 
> Do you still need the perl script to do it or have they configured a way 
> to talk directly (DHCP3, BIND9)?
> 
> I know at one point that there was a perl script that did a nice job 
> going between the two.  But I thought that with the newer versions of 
> bind and dhcpd that it was no longer required.
> 
> How best to put these two together then?

They work okay together using Dynamic DNS (not things like dyndns.org,
same name, different process).  You can use TSIG (IIRC) to securely
authenticate updates.

Jeffrey