Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:20:19 -0700 From: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using DHCP /and/ name recognition w/o running BIND Message-ID: <20040705202019.GC40182@0lsen.net>
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Hi: I am running a small network behind a D-Link firewall router, and I have a multitude of machines running on the NAT side. Generally, I use static IPs on the network for the FreeBSD machines (since they are often servers) and the Windows clients use DHCP. It would be nice if there was some way to be able to use the symbolic name for the windows clients since their IP addresses are free to change all the time. The D-Link does have the concept of static DHCP where each MAC address is assigned an IP to always be issued when requested, but I'm concerned that if/when the D-Link gives up the ghost that I'll have to scramble and find something that's a bit more robust and not tied to my router capabilities. It seems to be overkill to run BIND for just my small network here of 4 or so machines, so I was hoping there was a more lightweight way to handle this. There seems to be a current undocumented feature of most of these routers that if you use the router as a DNS server entry that it automagically forwards those requests to the DNS entries on the WAN side. However, for tools like nslookup that make explicit connections to the server, this does not work correctly. Thanks, -Clint
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