On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:09 +1100, David Kempe wrote: > Morgan Storey wrote: > > yep that works here with a win2k dhcp server and at work with a win2k3 > > dhcp server. > > yeah I just checked - the win2k and 2k3 dhcp servers have an option > (default to on) that updates the A and PTR record if requested by DHCP > clients. If you didn't want to change the client and had some control > over the server, you could choose the other option to always dynamically > update the zone. > I think you will need your domainname configured properly, probably in > dhclient.conf or equiv (maybe resolv.conf might provide a setting).
Interesting, this works with one site at work and not with another. Also interesting is that they have enabled a feature of ssh that the IP address must resolve or else ssh fails, means I can ssh on one site and not on another. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
