Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

[Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@optonline.net>]

Jeffrey L. Taylor <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org> writes:
 > 
 > Setting up DNS takes a couple of hours in one go.  Getting around it
 > will take about the same amount of time in smaller chunks.  You have
 > three (or more) alternatives:
 > 
 > 1) configure DHCP server to always give out the same IP address to the
 > same NIC each time and edit /etc/hosts on each box as new hosts added.
 > 
 > 2) configure DHCP server to give out the same IP address each time and
 > configure DNS with the names and IP addresses once and edit
 > /etc/resolv.conf once on each box.
 > 
 > 3) configure DHCP and DNS servers to use Dynamic DNS, so DHCP server
 > updates DNS server each time an IP address changes.

 > Having done all three at one time or another, I've settled on number
 > two.

Thanks for the info.  

This is clearly depressing.  I was hoping someone had already made it
simple to Do The Right Thing(tm).  

Ah, well.  I guess I can add fixing a DNS server to work right to the
list of many projects I might get around to doing some day.

Thanks,
Jerry