Date: 19 Jan 2004 15:47:03 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating DNS after DHCP Message-ID: <44vfn7eke0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040115075720.A57650@starfire.mn.org> References: <20040112230938.A62891@starfire.mn.org> <20040113121623.GB57681@ei.bzerk.org> <20040114214637.GA814@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <400695E0.4030105@romat.com> <20040115075720.A57650@starfire.mn.org>
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John <john@starfire.mn.org> writes: > Thanks, but I'm still missing a piece for my ideal scenario. This > requires the DCP server to know to whom it is handing out the > address, doesn't it? How would it know that? Does the DHCP request > include the host name? Or do you have to somehow bind a NIC/MAC > address to a name for isc-dhcp? The DHCP request usually contains a "client identifier", which you can configure dhcpd to use as the host name. You can also use the MAC address to identify machines (and associate a name) if you want. > Clearly, the BIND configuration is already set up to accept updates, > since the Windows system is successful in doing so. I think that client update can be enabled with a dhclient.conf parameter, described in the manual for dhclient.conf(5) under "DYNAMIC DNS", but I prefer to do it from my DHCP server instead... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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