Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means > I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up > something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or > whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS > updated?
Yes, you can. Especially ISC-BIND with ISC-DHCP can do this. I've tried it once, but it messed up my zone-files in bind so I decided to use the simple way: Assign addresses based on the clients' MAC-address via DHCP and keep static entries in my zones. I do not know which of both packages has the more complete description for DDNS (as dhcp names it), but both of them have documentation for this scenario. AFAIK there's one caveat: Normally bind uses authentication between rndc (the commandline tool to control bind's operation) and the daemon, it's not that simple to keep this up with DHCP. Maybe this has changed in younger versions. HTH, regards Felix -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
