Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 00:25:29 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Bruce Lacey <BBLacey@Home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help designing a solution to propagate dhcpclient dns IP changes to dhcpd Message-ID: <20010204002529.S91447@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <B6A21F73.32D6%BBLacey@Home.com>; from BBLacey@Home.com on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:49:55PM -0800 References: <B6A21F73.32D6%BBLacey@Home.com>
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:49:55PM -0800, Bruce Lacey wrote: > What is the best solution to the following scenario? > > I have a FreeBSD 4.1.1 box acting as a gateway/natd combo for my internal > net using dual NICS. The external NIC is connected to a cable modem and > receives the interface configuration parameters via DHCP (dhcpclient). The > internal NIC has dhcdp bound to it to serve addresses to my internal > network. dhcpd requires that you place the domain-name-servers in the > dhcpd.conf file in order to pass them to the client computers on the > internal net but my ISP changes the domain name serverıs IPs periodically. > The ISP dns IP changes are updated in resolv.conf by dhclient but they are > not inherited by dhcpd due to the ³hardwired² domain-name-servers option in > dhcpd.conf. > > Is there an easy solution to propagating the DNS IP change to my internal > network? I am not aware of an "easy" way to do something like that. However, I have found the easiest solution to run a nameserver on the NAT gateway. It gets its nameservers as a DHCP client, and it gives itself as the nameserver to the inside clients. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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