Keith; If you have hosts which you want actual names, give them a static IP.....You can also provide IP's via DHCP via MAC address thereby allowing you to create a table ip-->name in Bind (DNS). There is some work being done with Dynamic DNS which will do some of this for you.......however, I have not had a chance to look into this and you might look at isc.org and see what is goinon there..... Regards, Jon On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Keith Gibbons wrote:
Hello everyone, I am currently setting up a Samba server using SuSE 7.1 I have set up the DHCP and it is working fine, all PC's on the network receive their IP addresses via the server - so far so good. I want to set up the named nameserver as well on my server and I am a little confused. I have set up the preliminary zone files and this is where I come unstuck. I the zone file for my domain e.g xyz.com.zone I am supposed to enter the ip addresses and the hostnames. - why? As I am using DHCP does this not mean that the ip addr (set dynamically by DHCP) could on the clients could possibly be different every time? This is where I begin to get confused. The same applies to the xyz.com.rev file for reverse lookups. How is it possible to have DHCP and the DNS files kept accurate? Maybe I am missing something here but it seems to be very strange. Any help or explanation will be most appreciated.
Keith Gibbons, Ireland.