I highly appreciate everyone's help in the caching name server bit. Building on that one: Everyone knows my issues that i am having in terms of reverse lookup so the windows clients won't freak. I have decided to switch focus..as it seemed to make sense. I am now looking to setup a full DNS server for my internal network. Everything is actually set statically via DHCP using MAC addresses.(see attached jpeg). Do i have to manually enter every machine or can the dns populate the names and ips via dhcp? -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: home Network.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 180823 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050810/0413fb27/attachment-0002.jpg>
William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:> Everyone knows my issues that i am having in terms of > reverse lookup so the windows clients won't freak. I > have decided to switch focus..as it seemed to make sense. > I am now looking to setup a full DNS server for my internal > network.This is probably best. If you're using Samba, you should probably setup WINS with the same server as a WINS-to-DNS proxy as fallback.> Everything is actually set statically via DHCP > using MAC addresses.(see attached jpeg). > Do i have to manually enter every machine or can the dns > populate the names and ips via dhcp?You can setup BIND 9 (and some 8.x versions?) to do Dynamic DNS (DDNS). Windows clients should attempt to register their names in the DDNS server by default. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 13:15, William Warren wrote:> I highly appreciate everyone's help in the caching name server bit. > Building on that one: > > Everyone knows my issues that i am having in terms of reverse lookup so > the windows clients won't freak. I have decided to switch focus..as it > seemed to make sense. I am now looking to setup a full DNS server for > my internal network. Everything is actually set statically via DHCP > using MAC addresses.(see attached jpeg).I think the only difference is that you add the master entries in your named.conf file and appropriate zone files for the data for your internal zones. I'd recommend trying webmin for this because it will save the grunge work of building the reverse tables.> Do i have to manually enter every machine or can the dns populate the > names and ips via dhcp?You can make dhcp do dynamic updates, but for a small network the simple-minded way is to put the names and IP numbers in DNS, then put the names in the dhcpd.conf entries tied to mac addresses. That way if you want to change an address, you do it in the dns data and the dhcp will pick it up. By the way, if you really don't want to know all this stuff, you might like the SME server from www.contribs.org. The next version is going to be based on Centos4 and there is an alpha release available now. There are things I don't like about the system but for small networks where one server does everything and you want 'fill-in-the-form' administration it is a good fit. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
William Warren wrote:> I highly appreciate everyone's help in the caching name server bit. > Building on that one: > > Everyone knows my issues that i am having in terms of reverse lookup so > the windows clients won't freak. I have decided to switch focus..as it > seemed to make sense. I am now looking to setup a full DNS server for > my internal network. Everything is actually set statically via DHCP > using MAC addresses.(see attached jpeg). > > Do i have to manually enter every machine or can the dns populate the > names and ips via dhcp? >you will have to setup keys between dhcpd and named for the zone(s) that will allow dynamic updates.