Matt W. wrote:
Running OpenBSD 3.2; just wondering if anyone knows/thinks it is possible to
dynamically specify the DNS servers in dhcpd.conf

Something like:
option domain-name-servers $DNSIP1 $DNSIP2;

I was occationally getting schetchy DNS probs.  Finally figured out 2 of my
3 ISP-assigned DNS servers were deed/changed.
It may be, depending on what exactly you mean. I understand your example line, which may be sorta possible, but I can think of another way depending on what you mean.

Posting your dhcpd.conf file as it is now would give me a better idea of what you want to do to it.

One thing that springs to mind immediately is that I think you can use hostnames instead of IPs for the domain-name-servers line (this is assuming ISC-DHCPD). Then if your server can look it up properly (maybe run it's own DNS server?... but that would solve your problem by itself...) it will give the IP that matches the name. For instance, if you were running a DHCP server in the CS department then

option domain-name-servers heaven, hell

would work... or even better might be:

option domain-name-servers ns, ns1, ns2

only ns1 and ns1 don't exist in cs.byu.edu, only ns.

Matt W.
PS If you do think it is possible some hints would be nice, I'm looking for
more than a yes or no. :)


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