Ananth wrote:
>
> On Nov 16, 01:42:58 PM (Saturday), or Thereabouts, Mahantesh wrote:
> I cannot understand how this could possibly work. Which DNS server(s) will
> the updates be sent to? or will it just add an entry in /etc/hosts ?
No, it did not add entry to /etc/hosts. It is updating Local(LAN) DNS
server running on windows 2000.
> Will the ifup script read your resolv.conf and send the updates?
I did not mention any changes to resolv.conf. Ifup script reads
"ifcfg-eth0" located in network-scripts directory.
> Have you actually tested this ?
Yep., right now running this way only.
> The following is what i'm using for a LAN of >300 m/c's and it works fine.
>
> ISC dhcpd >v3.0 supports Dynamic DNS Updates. (ISC DHCP is the default DHCP
> server that comes with most Linux distributions) Download and configure it
I tried this first but did not work. Also DHCP is running on windows
2000. Then I concluded that DHCP running on
windows lesser version that 3. Then did this tweaking.
> [in the global section -]
>
> ddns-update-style interim;
> ddns-domainname "lab.example.com";
>
> [defining zones and their host DNS servers for forward and reverse lookups ]
>
> zone lab.example.com. {
> primary 192.168.1.1;
> }
>
> zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. {
> primary 192.168.1.1;
> }
I think this will work if your DHCP server has latest version of DHCPD
(RFC).
Thanks.
mahantesh.
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