I am no expert at this stuff. In fact i only just recently started runnign
a caching only name server myself (zero config needed btw other than
adding 127.0.0.1 to resolve.conf) - another thing I shoudl have done a
long time ago.
But I can tell you what I did.
You simply setup you dhcpd.conf to tell the dhcp client what nameserver(s)
to use. If it's your ISPs, use those. If you use your own namerserver,
give it as the primary and your isps as the sencondary/tertiary.
But that's it. They behave no differently than if you filled those same
values into the clients settings.
I have seen no problems, but have honeslty only tested this on a
connection that is always up - no idea how it works with
dialup/intermittent connections.
charles
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Too cool, no problems with DNS? How does naming resolution work. If
> too much to explain no worry I'll RTFM.
>
> Bret
>
> Charles Galpin wrote:
> >
> > It was really quite easy. I have no idea why I didn't do it sooner. Well,
> > I know why. If you have a simple network with a few computers it is really
> > not needed. As soon as you have more thasn a handfull of machines or you
> > start trying to swap a PC between 2 or more networks, it becomes
> > essential!
> >
> > I think all I did was install the dhcpd package, and read the dhcpd.conf
> > man page. It comes with a sample dhcpd.conf file which really
> > helps. Really you just have to understand a few basic concepts - It's job
> > is to listen for requests, and assign an IP (from some range), as well as
> > all the other stuff you would normally configure yourself like the domain
> > name, gateway, netmask etc. And all you do is describe these things in
> > dhcp.conf. Like everything else you can get pretty fancy if you want, but
> > you don't have to.
> >
> > On the client side the setup is as simple as setting the "get my IP
> > dynamically" checkbox.
> >
> > <OT>
> > In windows you can run 'winipcfg' to release and renew the lease at will
> > for testing so you don't have to keep rebooting :) It's also very handy if
> > you want to switch a running machine between two networks like I have been
> > doing lately - release the lease, unplug from one hub, plug into other,
> > renew lease - wallah - completely configured on other (dhcp based network)
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