I've been working on setting up dhcp-dns on my system so that I can get automatic name entries from DHCP. I've run into a problem, however. First, on the DHCP side.
Some of the computers on the network have static leases set up so that they'll always get the same IP address. Since installing dhcp-dns, they now appear to be getting a dynamic IP along with their static IP, though it is the same IP. While this is not a problem per se, it is clogging up my syslog with lots of repetitive errors. Also, and I'm not sure if this is related to the fact that these machines have static IP's, the dynamic IP's are not getting any hostnames associated with them. These machines are, coincidentally, the only Linux machines on the network and are all running dhclient, so it could be a misconfiguration on my part. Any ideas? The other problem is with the actual DNS updating. As far as I can tell after reading /usr/share/doc/dhcp-dns/README and making sure that everything is set up right (including editing /etc/dhcp-dns.conf), I have everything configured properly. But I'm still not getting any updates in the DNS tables. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any record of dhcp-dns running or any errors from bind. Any suggestions as to where I might be able to look for these? And finally, I keep seeing references to BOOTP while looking around for information. Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with what BOOTP is. All I know is that it allows a computer to get an IP address and some basic network information. It sounds to me a lot like DHCP with some options being passed. I don't HAVE to have all the machines in my network listed in DNS, I just need to have them SOMEHOW accessible to each other by name instead of just by IP. So if BOOTP (or any other protocol) can handle this for me with a minimum amount of hassle I'd be very happy to give it a shot. TIA for any help. -Alex
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