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From: "Scott Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Kempe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "George Vieira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Steve Kowalik"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SLUG List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux and WINS resolution.
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:08:14PM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
> > Is there a dynamic DNS client/server setup for linux?
>
> ISC BIND 8+ does DDNS from the the DNS side.
> ISC DHCP 3 (Currently in beta) does it from the DHCP side.
>
> http://www.isc.org/ for both.
>
> No idea how good they are though. DDNS is something which can be very,
> very fundamentally flawed if it's not done right (hint: consider what
> happens if someone calls their computer the same thing as your server.
> >From what I've seen, some products handle this better than others).
I have just started using these 2 as well as the SAMBA WINS with the
wins_dns_hook (which allows
it to dynamically update DNS as well)
It has made lots of odd, annoying and hard-to-trace name resolution problems
go away that existed when the DHCP and WINS server were on the NT server.
As well as removing the necessity of having to change the DNS entries by
hand and if at some stage that is necessary and/or I am not around you just
need to use a command line thing (nsupdate) to update the DNS.
---Gareth
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