Search Again: Re: DNS and DHCP From: Steffan A. Cline Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2002 Time: 12:08:02 pm If you are running the DHCP server you can assign a local ip even thru dhcp to the mac address of any one computer. That way your dns server will always point to the correct name to the correct ip. -Steffan --------------------------------------------------------------- T E L 6 0 2 . 5 7 9 . 4 2 3 0 | F A X 6 0 2 . 9 7 1 . 1 6 9 4 Steffan A. Cline Steffan@ExecuChoice.net Phoenix, Az http://www.ExecuChoice.net USA The Executive's Choice in Lasso driven Internet Applications --------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Global Homes Webmaster <webmaster@globalhomes.com> > Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:37:33 -0800 > To: QuickDNS Talk <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Subject: [OT] DNS and DHCP > > 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