From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 15: 1:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from visimation.com (visimation.com [206.169.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A6E37B410 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) ID MO001BD3; 20 Jun 02 15:00:59 -0700 Received: from spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31); 20 Jun 02 15:00:57 -0700 Received: from adam (10.0.0.100) by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) with ESMTP ID MG001BD1; 20 Jun 02 15:00:47 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Adam Lofstedt" To: "'Shawn Kennedy'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: RE: DHCP/DNS question Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:01:04 -0700 Organization: Visimation, Inc. Message-ID: <008901c218a5$f951e700$6400000a@adam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Shawn, Don't forget to CC the list... > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Kennedy [mailto:shawnlkennedy@lucent.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:01 PM > To: adaml@visimation.com > Subject: RE: DHCP/DNS question > > > > > > > I'm confused (nothing new :-) as to what changed > > > > > in regards to DHCP. Ever since the new DHCP stuff > > > > > was folded in back in April, I've had a problem with DHCP and > > > > > DNS here at work. It seems my hostname is not getting set in > > > > > the DNS server, but the IP address is. > > > > > > > If DHCP and DNS are windoze, you can have the network > > admins manually > > create a host and pointer record for your machine on the > > DNS server, > > and then create a client reservation on the DHCP server > > using your MAC > > address. Just a thought if you can't get the dynamic > > registration to > > work. > > > > Adam Lofstedt > > Hi Adam, > > The DNS and DHCP machines are very large Solaris machines. > The DNS engineer said they did take an update to bind to > version 8. Does that help anyone? > > Shawn > BIND 8 should support dynamic dns, and it sounds like the Linux machines are doing fine with it. I saw in a BIND newsgroup once IIRC that non-windows clients could try nsupdate, or some command like that. Maybe someone else could help here, that's all I've got. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message