On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Craig White wrote:
> Jan Carlson wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:36:17PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > Is there a redhat rpm solution that provides DHCP to clients on the local
> > > lan that adds them to /etc/hosts.
> > >
> > > It's disconcerting to have the pauses imposed on network users and it makes
> > > me question the value of DHCP.
> >
> > No, but you can set up a dns server on the dhcp server machine, which
> > has a zone with an entry for every machine on your lan, and your dhcp
> > server can tell each machine to use your dns server. That way you
> > don't need to add anything to /etc/hosts, and there are none of the
> > pauses that you mention.
> >
> ----
> Ok - I'll byte - throw me a bone please.
>
> Is there a faq, how-to on this?
>
> I know how to set up dns servers & dhcp servers and obviously edit
> /etc/hosts but apparently I lack the big picture. If the ip address is
> only known to dhcpd.leases, how does the dns server know? Is this
> dynamic dns? Adding them to dns records instead of /etc/hosts seems to
> be the same work - just a different location. Do I have something
> sitting in my 9cd pack of RH7.1 server that I am not learned enough to
> recognize?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig
>
>
The big difference is you only have to update one location - the machine
running bind and dhcpd. You can give the machine it's hostname when you
give it the IP, name servers, gateway, etc. If you have machines that
need a fixed name, you can configure mapping between MAC address and IP
address in dhcpd.conf. Usualy only servers and the gateway/firewall
need fixed IPs.
You can also go the dynamic DNS route - I have not tried this, but it is
susposed to work well also. I don't know if the scripts for it are on
the RedHat CD's...
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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