Search Again: DNS and DHCP From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2002 Time: 11:39:13 am I've marked this as off-topic because it's really a general DNS question and not really QuickDNS-specific, but it might be of interest to others on the list. I've recently set up an Airport II on my home network. It's running as a DHCP server, sharing a PPP connection out to the network (2 desktops, an iBook and a networked printer). Works as advertised, very cool; so far, so good. I'd like to set up a DNS server for the internal network (BIND on an OS X machine) so that we can refer to the various hosts by name. This is more for my own enlightenment and amusement than as a necessity. With the help of DNS & BIND, I'm sure that I can get an internal name server going without too much problem, but there is one thing I'm not sure about. Since the internal addresses assigned via DHCP are, well, dynamic, and since computers occasionally leave and re-join the network (a.k.a. the iBook goes for a ride...) and/or get rebooted, etc., the internal addresses get shuffled around occasionally. The machine at 10.0.1.2 today may or may not be the same machine at that address tomorrow. As far as I can find from the meager Airport docs there are no configuration options for its DHCP server other than 'on' and 'off,' so there's not a way to get the Airport always assign the same address to a given machine. Is there a workable strategy to deal with this so that a given host name in the internal DNS always resolves to the same machine, even if that machine's IP address may change occasionally? Can it be done with BIND, or would I need to find some other name server that can do dynamic DNS? I'm stretching the limits of my knowledge at this point, all suggestions are welcome, TIA. 8^) Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com <http://www.globalhomes.com/> | PGP public key available on request

Messages In This Thread: DNS and DHCP by Alan Ordway on Oct 8, 2001 at 8:56:30 am Re: DNS and DHCP by Frank Laszlo on Oct 8, 2001 at 9:14:28 am Re: DNS and DHCP by Men & Mice Support on Oct 8, 2001 at 10:30:14 am Re: DNS and DHCP by Len Conrad on Oct 8, 2001 at 11:39:24 am DNS and DHCP by Global Homes Webmaster on Feb 6, 2002 at 11:39:13 am Re: DNS and DHCP by Steffan A. Cline on Feb 6, 2002 at 12:08:02 pm Re: DNS and DHCP by Global Homes Webmaster on Feb 6, 2002 at 12:38:29 pm Re: DNS and DHCP by Warren Michelsen on Feb 6, 2002 at 3:34:01 pm Re: DNS and DHCP by Global Homes Webmaster on Feb 6, 2002 at 3:41:26 pm Re: DNS and DHCP by Men & Mice Support on Feb 6, 2002 at 3:49:45 pm Re: DNS and DHCP by Global Homes Webmaster on Feb 6, 2002 at 4:04:25 pm Re: DNS and DHCP by Len Conrad on Feb 6, 2002 at 4:21:08 pm Re: DNS and DHCP by Global Homes Webmaster on Feb 7, 2002 at 9:58:09 am