On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Olaf Conradi wrote: > +---[ On Jul 15, Will Lowe scribbled ]--- > | > How can I tell the nameserver which IP addresses DHCP has assigned to > | > the hosts so the names get resolved to the correct IP? > | > | Probably the only way I can think of is to remake the dns databases and > | restart named every time you renew a DHCP lease. I don't know if dhcpd > | allows you to run a command after a lease is assigned, but you could just > | run a cron job which remakes the .db files every five minutes, and tell > | people that thier hostnames won't resolve for five minutes after they > | boot. > | > | ... this would mean that you'd have to set your TTL for your DNS entries > | to five minutes, which might get out of hand. Is your LAN connected to > | the Internet? > +--->8 > > It's a private LAN (192.168.) within our organization, but in the > future we might connect it to the internet. > > I just found something on this site about Dynamic DNS: > http://simmons.starkville.ms.us/tips/081797/ > > But i'm not sure if it's usefull for me.
The ISC DHCP v3 BETA server supports DNS updates, I have not looked at it yet, but I assume that it uses dynamic dns with bind 8. Jason
