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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 2016 23:30:03 +0530
From:      ashish@FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA)
To:        JosC <bsduser@cloudzeeland.nl>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions\@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Hosts
Message-ID:  <86d1rg1zrw.fsf@chateau.d.if>
In-Reply-To: <56D2C3E0.8030406@cloudzeeland.nl> (JosC's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:54:40 %2B0100")
References:  <56D2C3E0.8030406@cloudzeeland.nl>

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On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:54:40 +0100, JosC <bsduser@cloudzeeland.nl> said:
| Is there a wayI can link domain names to MAC addresses instead to IP
| addresses?
| Used to give some internal harware fixed ip's and described that in my
| /etc/hosts file, but as for some I use DHCP, I cannot use that
| anymore.

If your internal hardware can send its hostname with DHCP request, then you
can use the standard DDNS (dynamic DNS) feature, present in ISC dhcpd which
works with ISC BIND.

A common use-case for this is being able to resolve Windows computer names =
in
a LAN over DNS, if you don't run/allow mDNS in your network. Following is a
good HOWTO for this:

http://semicomplete.com/articles/dynamic-dns-with-dhcp/

HTH
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Ashish SHUKLA      | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116  20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0
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