On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Harry Zink wrote:
> I am setting up the various clients on my network via dhcpd, which works
> well with 1.13r7.
>
> The only problem I have is that for each new client, I need to have an
> appropriate entry in the hosts file, otherwise they are not being
> recognized.
>
> Is there some way to automate this process - in other words, have any
> newly identified client added to the hosts file automatically, or set up
> DNS in such a way that it will properly recognize the clients on the
> network.
All client served by the dhcpd server are stored in /etc/dhcpd.leases. At
some point I was thinking about some import facility allowing one to
update a DNS from this file. This looks like a good idea, except that
there is already something going on between dhcpd and named. I don't know
how this work, but I was told that bind 8 and dhcpd 2 do have a way to
solve this problem.
I was planning to add various "import" facilities to the dnsconf module
-import a /etc/hosts file. Handy for people discovering
late what is a DNS and having a huge hosts file
-import one zone file into another domain
-import the /etc/dhcpd.leases files
Comments welcome on those ideas.
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