From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 0:53:20 2002 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 BC68937B407 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 00:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta-2.gci.net (mta-2.gci.net [208.138.130.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545AD43E4A for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 00:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@outlander.us) Received: from mmp-2.gci.net ([208.138.130.81]) by mta-2.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GYNXVK00.43J for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:52:32 -0800 Received: from laptop2 ([24.237.13.121]) by mmp-2.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GYNXVK02.4BA; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:52:32 -0800 Message-ID: <001d01c22266$1ac9b330$790ded18@Workgroup> From: "Mark Weisman" To: "Balaji, Pavan" , References: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18703BC5B45@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> Subject: Re: DNS while using DHCP Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:49:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Speaking out of turn here, the DNS is a pointer to an address, so depending on your DHCP lease length, I would just set up an A record for it in DNS all normal-like. I did see some stuff in the ports about dynamic DNS, although I haven't ventured out that far yet, but maybe someone here will pounce on this. However, before I got dedicated IP addresses, I just added my DHCP assigned address as my A record for my domain name. Hope this helps, His Faithful Servant, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Balaji, Pavan" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:55 PM Subject: DNS while using DHCP > Hi, > > I have configured the IPs to my machines using DHCP. Now, how do I configure > one of these machines as a secondary DNS? Any tips? > > > Pavan Balaji, > CIS Graduate Student, > Ohio State University > > "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect... It just means that > you have decided to see beyond the imperfections" -- Rash > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message