[plug] Dynamic DNS with DHCP - Help Requested.

[Nathan Manzi]

Thanks for that info.

For some self clarification, is the dhclient.conf file used by DHCPD at all?

Thanks,
Nathan Manzi

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:05:41AM +0800, Nathan Manzi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm interested in creating a server for a medium scale lan party - 
>> 100-200
>> people. I've set up a DHCP and DNS server on an xbox for the LAN, and 
>> want
>> the DHCP server to be able to add records for each of the DHCP clients,
>> e.g. Client grabs an IP, it's hostname then gets added to the zone file,
>> and it is then called client1.lan.
>>
>> If anyone has done this before, and is willing to send me example config
>> files, that would be excellent. If anyone knows of a good howto covering
>> how to do this, that would be just as good.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I suggest you have a read of:
> http://ops.ietf.org/dns/dynupd/secure-ddns-howto.html
>
> It covers all the concepts you need.
>
> The main gottcha is not every DHCP client sends the hostname and without
> it the DHCP server cannot update the DNS zone.
>
> Yours Tony
>
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