On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:38:40 -0700 "Mark Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running a Bering firewall, and I want all my local computers added > to my dns server. This is so I don't have to try to figure out what > address a computer got before I can access it. How can I get my dhcp > server to update my dns server? Should I be running tinydns, dnscache, > or both? Thanks! This is called dynamic dns, and you will need to run both tinydns and dnscache (assuming you want a caching recursive dns resolver for your internal network). Take a look at the script at http://www.thismetalsky.org/files/dhcp_dns It monitors your dhcpd leases file for new entries, then puts matching A and PTR records into your tinydns data file and reloads it. There is a trick to running tinydns and dnscache on the same machine unless you use two ip addresses. Run tinydns on localhost, dnscache on your internal address and forward queries for your domain to localhost. That way, your internal hosts get the dynamic entries. Unfortunately, dnscache will never return a true authoritative response for your own domain, but what the heck. You can do it right or some way that works. You forward the queries from dnscache to tinydns by putting a file in the /etc/dnscache/root/servers directory for your domain that points to localhost, e.g. franzdoodle.com file would contain 127.0.0.1 Okay, That is from memory, but I think it is mostly accurate. There are probably some other pitfalls that I've forgotten, so take a look at http://www.fefe.de/djbdns/#sameip for all the gory details. I use this setup for a department of about 100 engineers on a /22 subnet with 500 or so Windows, Solaris, and Linux dhcp machines. It works well and replaced an "equivalent" Windows NT setup that actually needed to be maintained (rebooted) frequently. Nobody even thinks about our dhcp/dns server anymore unless they need to add static records. Ahhh, the way it should be. Later. Chad Carr _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
