I am a noobie when it comes to configuring DNS - some guidance is appreciated. I am reading the DNS info in the 9.1 administration guide. It talks about setting up zone files where one ends up hardcoding the IP addresses for each hostname on the network. That seems to defeat the purpose of DHCP though. I'm currently using a Linksys firewall as a DHCP server for my Windows clients. I am setting up a SuSE Pro 9.1 server that will serve two main purposes: - Samba file and print sharing; - CVS source code server. We currently only have six users. I would really like to get rid of the host files that I have been using on each server and workstation (servers Linus, workstations Windows 2000/XP). I think I need to setup a caching DNS server, plus 1 zone that identifies my local network servers and workstations. But as I said above, that seems like it defeats the purpose of DHCP. What am I missing. Thank you - Richard