This is alot like a question I had about DHCP / DNS. I control DHCP and DNS for my subnet and use DHCP for all hosts. Well all but routers and firewalls. The need is to have:
1. DHCP use the NIC's MAC to identify a machine constistantly <easy with 'host' in dhcp.conf> 2. Assign a random IP from the pool. <again easy by omitting 'fixed address' in the host section 3. selectively update DNS / named - while running - with the IP and hostname of the machine that just got the address. The hostname can be, baed on named.conf or dhcp.conf, from the 'host' section in dhcp.conf or sent by the workstation getting the address. <I haven't got a clue> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: > Hi! > > I have a simple question: > how can I set up an alias for a host whose IP I don't have ? > ( like: I defined 'debian' as an alias to 'ftp.debian.org' -> lookup > request sent to DNS -> 64.28.67.101) > > /etc/hosts won't be happy unless I put an IP adress, however the LAN I'm > connected to uses DHCP, so I can't be sure that IP numbers won't change > unexpectedly. > > A google search didn't turn out anything 'clean', and neither did man > hosts. > Thanks for any idea, > > Romain > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
