Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:52:22 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DHCP and DNS Message-ID: <199607221652.MAA10996@garion.hq.ferg.com>
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Our company is considering using a DHCP server. I noted, downloaded and installed the WIDE dhcp server to play with, but I have a problem. Evidently the windows version of the dhcp server will send the client an IP when requested ( and router, subnet, dns server, domain name and other things ). The client then sends a notification to the WNIS server saying that I am here and this is my IP. The Microsloft WNIS server supports serving dns packets, and will serve the IP/hostname which was sent to it by the client. In looking at what FreeBSD has to offer, we have a dns server, named; and a WNIS server, nmbd, which comes with samba. Has anyone played with nmbd in relation to DNS and encountered this problem. I would like to put this all together and make it seamless, but currently it looks like I would have to update the DNS server any time it gave a different IP to a host. Since we are going to make the lease time unlimited, I would not have to make this update very often... but I would have to make it. ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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