On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:05, Dan wrote: > --On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 08:37:20 PM -0400 Jeremy Portzer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Chris Bullock wrote: > > > >> I believe what you are looking for is dynamic DNS. Windows uses its own > >> protocol to talk to each other, meaning you dont even need a DNS server > >> for a windows doamin to be able to talk to each other. We attempted to > >> get dynamic DNS working at our office with no luck. However, we > >> establish DHCP reservation and then put that IP and hostname in DNS. > >> Resolves both ways now. > > > > What you say isn't wrong per se, but dynamic DNS "normally" refers to a > > DNS zone set at an outside party, such as dyndns.org, easydns.com, etc. > > This is commonly used to update your DNS record for a server behind a > > dynamic IP connection such as cable modems or DSL. > > to be pedantic, what he said was correct > <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2136.html> > > DDNS originally meant just that, making BIND and DNS work together. >
Do you mean, "making DHCP and DNS work together?" But I didn't say it was wrong, just different from the more common usage of "dynamic DNS" today, at least on this mailing list :-) . At any rate, it looks like D. McLamb had the precise answer. I tried to find that but it's not documented in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt like it should be. :-( --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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