> This is the ago old problem of name resolution and DHCP.
> Things like dynamic DNS solve this, however support for this is only
really
> present in Win2k native and ill bet its very broken at that.
> Is there a dynamic DNS client/server setup for linux?
>
> BTW george, the way around the DNS issue is to use static mapping for the
> DHCP allocation. So you use the MAC addr to assign an IP. Might get a bit
> annoying to use. Perhaps static IPs for those people that you need to tell
> apart. DHCP is good for pools of nodes that you don't need to tell apart.
:/
On a Redhat system (in the linuxconf stuff) there is a dhcp2dns script that
can be run in cron.
(it is placed in cron by linuxconf if you use the DNS and DHCPD modules)
This will update your zone file with info from dhcp.leases.
It's just a perl script (that I can send to you)
There are potential problems with your dns being updated with the names that
users have arbitarily assigned to their pc's.
On my network I have opted to create the static entries in the dhcpd.conf
file.
You can doa "arp -a" to see the arp cache, then create the entries in
dhcpd.conf like:
host mustang {
hardware ethernet 00:d0:b7:10:46:88;
fixed-address 203.55.82.10;
}
I like this as when I am installing and trying different OS's or dual
booting, the system will always get the same IP
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