From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 14:33:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3026F16A400 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lreid@cs.okstate.edu) Received: from a.cs.okstate.edu (a.cs.okstate.edu [139.78.113.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BEB13C447 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:33:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lreid@cs.okstate.edu) Received: from [172.18.0.137] (sky_cpfw-1.tulsatech.org [70.168.226.130]) by a.cs.okstate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07ACBA086F; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:33:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <466EAEAB.9030608@cs.okstate.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:33:15 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070517) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey Goldberg References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coordinating dhcpd and bind X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:33:22 -0000 Written by Jeffrey Goldberg on 06/12/07 08:45>> > For some local networks, I run dhcpd using assigning fixed IP address > based on the client MAC. I am also running bind for the local > networks. At some sites where I am doing this, I'm using webmin for > maintaining DNS (or I actually have my clients doing this). I've don't > use or recommend webmin for DHCPd since I've just had too many problems > with it, so that is maintained by hand. > > Naturally I'd like to coordinate this activity. When a new host is > added, it would be nice to ensure that the name and IP assigned in DHCP > is the same that is done with DNS. > > I could write my own script for this, but I'm sure that similar scripts > have been written a thousand times, 980 of which are better than I would > write. Is there anything in ports or elsewhere that people could > recommend. > > (Some of the sites where I need this are mostly Linux based, but will be > moving to FreeBSD over time). > > -j > > Sounds like you want to use dynamic DNS updates. I put a howto for this on bsdforums: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=260530