From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 5 20:20:21 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 2346516A4D2 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D574443D45 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:20:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from clint@0lsen.net) Received: from 0lsen.net ([24.20.127.157]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20040705202020015003i8cke>; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:20:20 +0000 Received: by 0lsen.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AB4C61583; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:20:19 -0700 From: Clint Olsen To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040705202019.GC40182@0lsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: NULlsen Network X-Disclaimer: Mutt Bites! Subject: Using DHCP /and/ name recognition w/o running BIND 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: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:20:21 -0000 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