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Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP



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On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:10:45PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> I've got the nameservers in resolv.conf and so resolving public IP's is 
> fine.  It's the hosts on the local network that don't resolve.  I tried 
> including the DHCP server's  IP address as a name server but that gave 
> some strange errors and didn't help.

You need to enable updates for DNS in both bind and DHCP.  I never
managed to get it working in the end here.

I've usually found maintaining a DHCP server for a home network is
slightly on the overkill side.

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