Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:50:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft brainrot (was: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf) Message-ID: <199709291450.IAA22977@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199709290627.XAA24556@kithrup.com> References: <19970927143934.ZN26834@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709272127.OAA11524@usr08.primenet.com> <19970928101941.03210@lemis.com> <19970928162256.26698@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <199709290549.XAA22472.kithrup.freebsd.chat@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199709290627.XAA24556@kithrup.com>
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Sean Eric Fagan writes:
> But you could, I think, do something with DHCP, whereby the host says what
> it is to the DHCP server, while it's negotiationg an address... And then
> the DHCP server could use the BIND 8.* stuff to update the DNS info...
>
> That'd be interesting.
This is pretty much what the Internet Station does. It was somewhat
simpler for us, though, since we developed our own tiny DNS server, and
have shared-memory access to it's cache of hosts, the DHCP server can
easily add and remove hostnames and addresses.
Another approach would be to have your configuration tool generate DNS
and DHCP server configurations, and have all of your clients use DHCP.
Then, anytime you modify the domain, the worst case would be to have all
of the machines on the network do a DHCP release and renew.
> I still don't know what an ISDN RR is, though ;).
The ISDN phone number for the host.
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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