17 Oct
2005
17 Oct
'05
13:41
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 17 October 2005 01:37 am, Art Fore wrote:
Question is, how does DNS get the local network ip addresses and host names from the DHCP, or does it?
I'm no expert in DHCP (avoid it at all costs) but in my view, it doesn't get the hostnames vs ip addresses which is one big drawback to DHCP.
I may be wrong on this. The only solution is to hand out DHCP addresses based on MAC addresses so the same machine gets the same IP address each time. There may be other ways to accomplish this.
There are some DNS servers, that work with DHCP servers to maintain host names. IIRC, that was avaiable in OS/2 Warp Server almost 10 years ago.