On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:35:51PM -0700, Art Fore wrote:
I have been searching for a how-to and the above matter, but have not found anything applicable to what I want to do.
I have a netgear router-firewall-DHCP. I am presently using this DHCP with the 3 computers I have on my network. I want to add a server which would have DNS server so I can locate the machines by name on the network. I have found info where the server is both DNS and DHCP server, but nothing for the DNS Server getting info from an external DHCP server for the DNS.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this or where there is info on this?
It's not possible. The DNS server cannot derive the host info from the DHCP server -- unless the DHCP server does DDNS (dynamical DNS) to update the DNS server's zone data. Of course the DHCP server can serve data to hosts that are known in some DNS server, without knowing the data itself. (The DHCP server could hand out the IP address to the client, accompanied by the IP address of the DNS server and other data, and the client could look up its own hostname on its own.) Peter