Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:00:07 +0200 From: Alex <freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Brian Naylor <bwv211mail@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP/DNS Message-ID: <1273678379.20020622100007@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020622003159.20529.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020622003159.20529.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dear Brian, Saturday, June 22, 2002, 2:31:59 AM, you wrote: BN> I'm sorry, but this is already over my head. I have been using fixed IP BN> addresses and maintaining a /etc/hosts file on every machine. So now I decided BN> to get with the real world. I installed /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3, and dhcp BN> itself appears to be working - clients connect and evidently have IP addresses. BN> But how do I handle the DNS side of things? I am a complete newbie to DNS - I BN> just want to handle my simple local home network. BN> So in sum: I now have a /etc/hosts file on every machine. This obviously won't BN> work with DHCP. So how do I move to a more DNS-style solution? BN> Thank you. The handbook has a section describing how to set up a DNS server. The manual dhcpd.conf discribes has a section that discribes how to change this to a dynamic dns. (section DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES) -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook The mailing lists http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list How to get best results from the FreeBSD- questions mailing list http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Alternative: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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