From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 13:16:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC3C15861 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id GAA05549; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:03:32 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02198; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:32:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:29:10 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuration of DHCPD + DNS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, James A. Mutter wrote: {...} > What I'd like in the end is to be able to add boxes to the network, > and instantly provide nameservice to them without having to > reconfigure and restart named each time I add a new machine. > > Is this possible or am I dreaming? If it is possible, without any > extensive modifications, I plan to use it on a much larger network > than the one in my apartment! Its not quite what you're intending, but what I've done at work (running an internal root DNS config) is to create DNS references of the form ccc??? - where ccc represents some location code, and ??? is the last octet of the IP address; references are created for all IP addresses to be used by Win95 PCs. This way I don't have to bother updating DNS at all.... This works satisfactorily because the W95 pc doesn't actually care about its DNS name (ours have their "windows" machine name set to an inventory code). We concluded that trying to have a DNS name follow a specific user was an impossible dream, so there wasn't much point about trying to be dynamic about DNS names. We also use static IP assignment, partly because we were originally running bootp, and partly because it allows us to have redundant dhcp servers covering nearly all the active machines. Each dhcp server does have a small, unique range of dynamic use addresses for laptops etc. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message