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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:33:15 -0500
From:      Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu>
To:        Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Coordinating dhcpd and bind
Message-ID:  <466EAEAB.9030608@cs.okstate.edu>
In-Reply-To: <D689E95F-107C-42D9-B293-676137DBBD26@goldmark.org>
References:  <D689E95F-107C-42D9-B293-676137DBBD26@goldmark.org>

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Written by Jeffrey Goldberg on 06/12/07 08:45>>
> For some local networks, I run dhcpd using assigning fixed IP address 
> based on the client MAC.  I am also running bind for the local 
> networks.  At some sites where I am doing this, I'm using webmin for 
> maintaining DNS (or I actually have my clients doing this).  I've don't 
> use or recommend webmin for DHCPd since I've just had too many problems 
> with it, so that is maintained by hand.
> 
> Naturally I'd like to coordinate this activity.  When a new host is 
> added, it would be nice to ensure that the name and IP assigned in DHCP 
> is the same that is done with DNS.
> 
> I could write my own script for this, but I'm sure that similar scripts 
> have been written a thousand times, 980 of which are better than I would 
> write.  Is there anything in ports or elsewhere that people could 
> recommend.
> 
> (Some of the sites where I need this are mostly Linux based, but will be 
> moving to FreeBSD over time).
> 
> -j
> 
> 

Sounds like you want to use dynamic DNS updates. I put a howto for this 
on bsdforums: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=260530



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