Search Again: Re: DNS and DHCP From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2002 Time: 4:04:25 pm On 02/06/02 at 15:49, Men & Mice Support wrote: > I haven't had to learn much about dynamic DNS, but here's what I > remember from Len's seminar: After a machine gets an IP address from > the DHCP server, either the host or the DHCP server (or both) needs > to contact the DNS server, possibly via some middleman process that > handles authentication. > > Unfortunately, that means that if neither the DHCP server (the Base > Station) nor the client (Open Transport) has this ability, then > you're pretty much out of luck for a built-in solution. (The only > working, fully-built-in solution I've ever heard of is built into > Windows and the Microsoft DHCP server.) > > Your next option is some sort of extension that detects when OT > becomes active, waits for OT to get a lease, then contacts the DNS > server itself, possibly via a middleman process such as a web > application on the DNS server machine. There are several examples of > this out on the Internet (such as hldns.com, which uses QuickDNS Pro > 2.x), for use with dial-up accounts. I don't know of any working > solution for this that can be set to update a local DNS server, but > that doesn't mean they don't exist. Chris, Thanks for your insight, that's about what I expected. One minor point is that two of the three client computers are running OS X, so they're using the Darwin TCP stack rather than OT. I'm going to try Warren Michelson's suggestion of manually configuring the client machines with static addresses in the base station's subnet. If the base station's NAT still works, I'm good to go with that. If it doesn't work, no big deal -- like I said, I'm doing this mostly for my own edification anyway, so nothing bad will happen if it can't be done. 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