On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:18:34AM -0700, 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
Just statically create the dns entries for all dhcp hosts in the IP range
in advance.
e.g.
192.168.1.101 dhcp1
192.168.1.102 dhcp2
192.168.1.103 dhcp3
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