From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 10:50: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net (edtnes12.telus.net [199.185.220.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E2637BFF4 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@aspert.com) Received: from james ([209.53.43.75]) by priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.11 201-229-116-111) with SMTP id <20000620174511.CWOF1114.priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net@james>; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:45:11 -0600 Message-ID: <014701bfdadf$11705580$4b2b35d1@aspert.com> From: "James A. Peltier" To: "Bernd Luevelsmeyer" , "Chris Fedde" Cc: References: <200006200658.e5K6vx196559@fedde.littleton.co.us> Subject: Re: DHCP server for FreeBSD 4.0 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:41:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With older versions just generate a config file containing machine names for your IP ranges and when your machine gets an address it will already be assigned a DNS name. - James A. Peltier ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Fedde To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer Cc: Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:57 PM Subject: Re: DHCP server for FreeBSD 4.0 > On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 03:43:20 +0200 Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote: > +------------------ > | May I ask, how do you get DHCP-generated IP addresses into the DNS? I've > | got a DHCP server that assigns addresses just fine, but they can't be > | looked up because only the fixed addresses are in the DNS. Windows > | clients can find each other via WINS, but that isn't enough in the long > | run, I'll need the DNS lookup sooner or later. > | I could, if that helps, have the master DNS and the DHCP-daemon on the > | same computer. Perhaps one could let the DHCP server modify the zone > | file and issue a "ndc reload" when a lease is assigned? But I'll have to > | handle expired leases too. > | > | > | Thanks, > | Bernd > +------------------ > > The 3.0b1pl13 ISC server supports some features for dynamic DNS > update. The 8.2.2-p5 BIND supports dynamic updates as defined in > RFC-2136. I've only begun to play with this. > > For my current uses I put something like: > > $GENERATE 150-200 $ ptr dhcp$.i.foo.com. > > in my in-addr.arpa zone file and > > $GENERATE 150-200 dhcp$ a 192.168.1.$ > > in my foo.com zone file. > > chris > > -- > Chris Fedde > 303 773 9134 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message