I think this may be an issue with the Fedora build of dhclient. I can successfully update DNS with dhclient on CentOS6 or Ubuntu, but not Fedora.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM, bruce <badoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > kevin. > > the whole/partial reason for all of this. > > the local system with the dhcp, doesn't have a dns!!! > > you come in the lab, connect, you get your ip. as to the external > world, the dhcp serves the dns for the rest of the world. as to the > internal boxes, you get an ip, nothing more!! > > it wasn't the intent to have boxes hooked up for long... we're bending > the system... so to do that, we'd rather not have to always recall > ipaddresses, so we're going to kludge this.. > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Kevin Martin <ktm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 01/21/2014 10:36 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > >> On 01/21/2014 09:54 AM, bruce wrote: > >>> tim.. > >>> > >>> i have complete control over the local dns > >>> > >>> the local client machines are given hostnames upon creation/boot up.. > >>> > >>> the idea is to be able to have someone within the local network, > >>> who'[s machine has been configured to point to the local dns, to be > >>> able to use the boxname "foo" to get to the machine instead of the > >>> ipaddress of the "foo" box. > >>> > >>> normally,, all of this would be handled by thre dhcp server.. in this > >>> case it isn't. > >>> > >>> so you need to do a kludge which involves updating the local dns > >>> server/records with the updated mapped ip/name. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> > wrote: > >>>> Allegedly, on or about 21 January 2014, bruce sent: > >>>>> some of us who deall with getting dhcp ipp addresses, don't have > >>>>> access to managing the dhcp server!!! > >>>> > >>>> And you have access to a DNS server that you can reprogram?? > >>>> > >>>> If so, then have a look at the already existing coding for the DHCP > >>>> servers, and apply the same with your client. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > >>>> Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 > x86_64 > >>>> > >>>> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > >>>> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > >>>> public lists. > >>>> > >>>> George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, > not > >>>> a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> users mailing list > >>>> users@lists.fedoraproject.org > >>>> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > >>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >>>> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > >>>> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > >>>> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >> can you 'dig @primaryDNS your.domain.com axfr' the primary DNS server? > If you can't you probably won't be able to do what you are > >> hoping to achieve as the primary name server isn't allowing you to do a > zone transfer. You would essentially have to know each and > >> every host and do a name lookup of each and every host one at a time > and capture that information and build your zone(s) that way. > >> > >> Kevin > >> > > better yet, why don't you just point the dns clients to the primary dns > server, set the domain to search, and do the name resolution > > that way? > > > > Kevin > > -- > > users mailing list > > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
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