> A bit of background: I am moving from the @home to a local cable provider's > domain and @home will cease function in a little while. I have a couple > machines on my network that need static IP's so I need to set them up > manually. I see in the step-by-step Dachstein instructions that I set the > DNS to "Primary DNS = 192.168.1.254 ... Secondary DNS = Your ISP's DNS > server". But my new provider (InsightBB) claims that DNS must be determined > via DHCP. I believe that my connectivity is only possible now because my > boxes are pointed at @home's DNS servers which will disappear shortly. > > My Question: How do I configure DNS on my network machines? I can imagine > these options: > > (1) Will the Dachstein box handle this automagically if I list it as the > sole DNS? If so, this is simple.
It will if you're running DNSCache, or another resolver. In fact, systems configured via DHCP get *ONLY* the IP of the firewall for their DNS servers, unless you edit your dhcpd.conf file, and everything works fine. > (2) Shall I figure out the insightbb DNS servers and then list them by IP in > the hopes that they won't change? How do I get the IP's from DHCP? What > happens if my IP lease expires and the DNS servers are different for my new > IP (or is this wildly unlikely)? 2a) I wouldn't bother... 2b) Get the IP's from your dhclient leases file: /var/state/dhcp/dhclient.leases 2c) If your lease expires and you get new DNS info, you could have problems resolving names until everything stabalizes...of course, if your ISP instantly switched DNS server IP's without some overlap, they'll likely be out of business from the tech support volume alone, so you probably don't have to worry too much about it... > (3) Is there a way to configure Windows and Linux machines to only accept > the DNS information via DHCP? In general, yes...if you have specific questions, ask with a bit more detail... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
