On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ben Jorgensen wrote: > Is there any such? It would be nice not having to update the DNS server by > hand all the time. And using DHCP to assign IP:s automatically could solve > this if there was a tool for updating the DNS server. >
This is still in the protocol definition stage by the IETF. In the Internet Area, Dynamic Host Configuration working group, there is an internet draft that defines a potential protocol to allow DHCP clients and servers to update DNS servers using the Dynamic DNS Updates (RFC2136) mechanism. BIND Version 8 has the dynamic updates RFC2136 so it is there. The DHCP clients or servers would have to be modified to use this to update DNS, but I don't think this can happen until the aforementioned internet draft is finalized into an RFC.
