From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 29 07:41:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA14337 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 07:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA14331 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 07:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA22977; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:50:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:50:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709291450.IAA22977@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Sean Eric Fagan CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft brainrot (was: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf) Newsgroups: kithrup.freebsd.chat 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> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com