* Mark Zimmerman <mark@foresthaven.com> [20030406 10:18 PDT]: > 3. Since you want the internal names and IP addresses to be dynamic, > the internal nameserver must allow the dhcp server to provide > dynamic updates to it. Well, you can get the benfits of DHCP without the addresses being really "dynamic". In your dhcp server's config, you can assign "dhcp sticky" addresses. Basically, you put hardware addresses in the dhcpd conf file and have it always give the same IP addresses to the same hardware addresses. One way I've found to manage this pretty nicely is to run a local nameserver providing name=>IP and IP=>name lookups. Then set your dhcp server to map hardware addresses to names. This method will make adding hosts a 2-step process (update dhcpd.conf, update dns) instead of one, though. Changing a host's address can be done by editing only the DNS zone files, and not touching dhcpd.conf. This may or may not (probably not) be a better way than bind9's dynamic updates; I just wanted to point it out as an alternative. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.xenu.net Scientology
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