Hi,
thanks Keith, thanks Shaun.
The question was how to assign a hostname (and aliases) by a dhcp
request (and of course resolving it).
I think it can't be done at the moment.
I can put an entry for every alias in /etc/hosts (or Network->Edit
hosts), it is just another way.
(and it was not exactly the way I wanted to go.)
regards
Peter
Shaun Skillin (home) schrieb:
> Hi Keith,
> I've not used that approach myself, as I have always had other internal DNS
> servers to do the heavy lifting. It makes sense that you could put in
> specific records, and it would answer queries for those specific records.
> Since you've used this feature more, I will definitely trust your word more
> than mine :). But I think the original question was, if a client gets an IP
> from the DHCP server running on EFW, will EFW actually accept the client's
> attempt to register using dynamic DNS? I didn't think that capability
> existed, so please let us know if you've seen that work.
> I still have a need, almost 100% of the time, for a true DNS server
> internally; one that can answer queries for MX, NS, SOA, PTR, etc., so I just
> have not used EFW as the main DNS server. I like its proxy function, though.
> And please, let me know if there's some button in this thing that I should
> be pushing more, regarding DNS.
> Thanks Keith,
>
> Shaun
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Coles [mailto:k...@trivas.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:44 AM
> To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Efw-user] DHCP and (multiple) hostnames.
>
> Shaun
>
> I must be missing something here...EFW can act as a DNS server for its
> internal zone.
>
> It uses dnsmasq which acts as a composite DNS/DNS forwarder/DHCP server.
> As well as using DHCP leases to populate the DNS server it can also use
> the contents of a host file (usually /etc/hosts). I don't think it can
> do zone transfers, or act in master/slave roles so its not suitable for
> larger more complex networks.
>
> I use it routinely for setting multiple aliases for internal systems,
> and for setting aliases for external systems.
>
> Regards
>
> Keith
>
> Shaun Skillin (home) wrote:
>
>> I think you’re actually on the right track Peter. If EFW could support
>> the function of being authoritative for an internal zone, that would
>> be great. It can probably do it, I just haven’t tried to load BIND on
>> it yet. Of course, that brings up the question of how much a firewall
>> is supposed to do, but I kind of like the Swiss Army Knife approach.
>>
>> Shaun Skillin
>> CCIE #4527 R/S & ISP/Dial
>>
>>
>
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