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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:16:23 +0100
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
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Subject: Re: Updating DNS after DHCP
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:09:38PM -0600, John typed:
> I see that some Microsoft systems send out an update to DNS with
> the system name.  I configured my DNS server to accept these updates,
> but now that I'm running FreeBSD on a laptop - how do I do that
> from FreeBSD? I've looked at the dhclient man pages and the named
> man pages and the pages that they refer to and I didn't pick up
> any hints there.
> 
> Can anyone give me a clue? (Yeah - I'm clueless...)

I believe this is done by the nsupdate(8) program.

Ruben
 
> Thanks!
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> John Lind
> john@starfire.MN.ORG
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