-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: >At 4/9/2002 03:26 PM -0700, you wrote: >>Maybe I'm dense, but could someone explain to me what problem this >>solves? The assignments are dynamic, but the mapping between the IP >>address and its A record -- which is what DNS does -- is static, and has >>nothing to do with whether the address is currently in use. > >The *hope* is that the following will happen: > >1. My notebook is assigned 192.168.0.102 by DHCP. >2. The DHCP server notifies DNS that "notebook IN A 192.168.0.102". >3. "ping notebook" does the right thing. >4. I reboot, get assigned .103 by DHCP. >5. DNS (and its cache) is updated. >6. "ping notebook" again does the right thing.
You could accomplish the same thing using static IP addresses and hosts files. It would take less time to setup and there are less moving parts to break. Just put every machine you own or that may connecto to your networin in the hosts file and copy it to all your machines. If you often get visiting UNIX/Linux machines, you may need an internal DNS. If the visiting machines are Windows, just enable WINS on a Samba server and recent versions of Windows will use WINS to resolve DNS queries. For small networks, DNS and DHCP are often more trouble than they're worth. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE8s5VMpCpg3WyUI50RAg+gAKDh+wqun7mU/8hO++y80t/BvxjMdQCgu0qG CXhaXqQmdaZBL/3Vf657Itk= =BEXv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list