From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 0:59:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp08.wxs.nl (smtp08.wxs.nl [195.121.6.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471B437B40E for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 00:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp08.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GY3KUS02.BN0; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:59:16 +0200 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:00:07 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1273678379.20020622100007@dds.nl> To: Brian Naylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP/DNS In-Reply-To: <20020622003159.20529.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020622003159.20529.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dear Brian, Saturday, June 22, 2002, 2:31:59 AM, you wrote: BN> I'm sorry, but this is already over my head. I have been using fixed IP BN> addresses and maintaining a /etc/hosts file on every machine. So now I decided BN> to get with the real world. I installed /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3, and dhcp BN> itself appears to be working - clients connect and evidently have IP addresses. BN> But how do I handle the DNS side of things? I am a complete newbie to DNS - I BN> just want to handle my simple local home network. BN> So in sum: I now have a /etc/hosts file on every machine. This obviously won't BN> work with DHCP. So how do I move to a more DNS-style solution? BN> Thank you. The handbook has a section describing how to set up a DNS server. The manual dhcpd.conf discribes has a section that discribes how to change this to a dynamic dns. (section DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES) -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook The mailing lists http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list How to get best results from the FreeBSD- questions mailing list http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Alternative: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message