[plug] Dynamic DNS configuration - Ignore this for now

[Kirk Turner]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:14:44PM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> I've found there is a whole lot more to learn for this, so no hurry for an 
> answer - I think I have about a week of reading before I get serious with the 
> configuration files!

I know you said to ignore this, but it is something I struggled with for
ages. The solution was actually simpler than I thought for debian -
there is a package dhcp-dns which takes the lease information and
automatically runs nsupdate and adds the information to the dns.

Hope that helps,

Kirk
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:52 pm, Steve Boak wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I'm trying to configure dynamic DNS on a (Debian Woody) server with several
> > windoze boxes attached on a private lan. I already use dhcp to give out IP
> > addresses, and that works well, but I would like to get the hostnames into
> > DNS for ease of talking to the windows machines from the Linux end. The IP
> > addresses do change occasionally as machines are changed around on the
> > network.