Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-31 Thread Jerry Quinn
Bill Moseley writes: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:51:38PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > > > That's one. You don't have to go out of your way in the simple case > > to get dnsmasq to forward dns requests upstream. It also incorporates > > /etc/hosts into its cache. > > Just so I'm clear, th

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey L. Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030527 20:53]: > 2) configure DHCP server to give out the same IP address each time and > configure DNS with the names and IP addresses once and edit > /etc/resolv.conf once on each box. You could use the dhcp server options "domain-name" and "domain-name s

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:51:38PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > That's one. You don't have to go out of your way in the simple case > to get dnsmasq to forward dns requests upstream. It also incorporates > /etc/hosts into its cache. Just so I'm clear, the reason it reads /etc/hosts is so that so

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Jerry Quinn
Bill Moseley writes: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:11:12PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > > R Ransbottom writes: > > > > > > > > > > This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > > > > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > > > > play. >

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:11:12PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > R Ransbottom writes: > > > > > > > This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > > > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > > > play. > > > > Since only one dhcp server should

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Jerry Quinn
R Ransbottom writes: > > > > This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > > play. > > Since only one dhcp server should exist on a segment it is a bad > idea to have such a package work without, a

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread R Ransbottom
> This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > play. Since only one dhcp server should exist on a segment it is a bad idea to have such a package work without, at least, forcing the user to set it up. -

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread Jerry Quinn
Jerry Quinn writes: > Stephen A. Witt writes: > > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote: > > > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > > > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > Excellent pointer! Except for the fact that it doesn't seem to w

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread Jerry Quinn
Stephen A. Witt writes: > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote: > > > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > > So is there a si

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being ab

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Setting up DNS takes a couple of hours in one go. Getting around it > > will take about the same amount of time in smaller chunks. You have > > three (or more) alternatives: > > > > 1) configu

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread William Cooper
Jerry Quinn wrote: Thanks for the info. This is clearly depressing. I was hoping someone had already made it simple to Do The Right Thing(tm). Ah, well. I guess I can add fixing a DNS server to work right to the list of many projects I might get around to doing some day. Thanks, Jerry H

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-28 Thread Jerry Quinn
Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Setting up DNS takes a couple of hours in one go. Getting around it > will take about the same amount of time in smaller chunks. You have > three (or more) alternatives: > > 1) configure DHCP server to always give out the same IP address t

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-27 Thread moseley
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:02:48PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-27 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being a

How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-27 Thread Jerry Quinn
Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being able to have their names resolve to IP's easily (no