Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:01:04 -0700 From: "Adam Lofstedt" <adaml@visimation.com> To: "'Shawn Kennedy'" <shawnlkennedy@lucent.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: DHCP/DNS question Message-ID: <008901c218a5$f951e700$6400000a@adam> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLNBDCLDILGOPJLGIKEPECIAA.shawnlkennedy@lucent.com>
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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
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