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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