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Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP



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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:43:40AM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote:
> Add the following lines to /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf:
> ddns-update-style interim;
> option domain-name-servers <your server's IP address>;
> 
> Add the folling lines to /etc/bind/named.conf:
> zone "<your network address backwards>.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> 	type master;
> 	file "db.<your network address>";
> 	allow-update { localhost; };
> };
> zone "<your local domain name>" IN {
> 	type master;
> 	file "db.<your domain name>";
> 	allow-update { localhost; };
> };
> 
> And restart your DHCP and DNS servers:
> /etc/init.d/bind restart
> /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart
> 
> This is really neat, but I've been unable to get it working on my Debian
> box (whilst it works very nicely on my Red Hat box).

I just tried this out without reading the entire message and it works
like a charm for me using bind9 and dhcp3.  Not sure why it wouldn't
work for you...

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