From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 13:47:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE5816A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D7843D62 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:47:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.124]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040114214715.SYTC14639.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:47:15 +0000 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org ([192.168.1.6]) by llama.fishballoon.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AgsqQ-0007Ts-SA; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:46:34 +0000 Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0ELkbh5000837; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:46:37 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:46:37 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Ruben de Groot , John , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040114214637.GA814@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20040112230938.A62891@starfire.mn.org> <20040113121623.GB57681@ei.bzerk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040113121623.GB57681@ei.bzerk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 Subject: Re: Updating DNS after DHCP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:47:33 -0000 On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:16:23PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:09:38PM -0600, John typed: > > I see that some Microsoft systems send out an update to DNS with > > the system name. I configured my DNS server to accept these updates, > > but now that I'm running FreeBSD on a laptop - how do I do that > > from FreeBSD? I've looked at the dhclient man pages and the named > > man pages and the pages that they refer to and I didn't pick up > > any hints there. > > > > Can anyone give me a clue? (Yeah - I'm clueless...) > > I believe this is done by the nsupdate(8) program. You can also have your DHCP server do the updates - which makes sense, as it's the thing handing out the addresses to your client machines. I have this working reasonably well with isc-dhcpd, for Windows and FreeBSD clients. You want to read the 'DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES' section of the dhcpd.conf(5) manpage, and whatever docs your DNS server has on this topic. There are plenty of examples of working configs for isc-dhcpd and bind to be found on the web. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon