Re: dhcp and bind 8

[chuck <chuck@Yerkes.com>]

You are looking for DDNS - dynamic DNS. It's not intrisic to BIND 8
at this time.  Vixie gave a nice little talk on BIND 9 at BayLISA
a couple months ago and (legal) issues they have with signed zones.

You COULD script an "nsupdate" thing when a DHCP lease is GIVEN
and accepted (not requested).  Issues arise with updating multiple
servers and how long those records are cached down the line.  Not
simple.  Do a net search for DDNS (rfcs, dns helpful sites, etc)
and you should get a bit more info.

chuck

Quoting Trevor Clarke (retrev@csh.rit.edu):
> I installed BIND 8 today and it works great. I'm running DHCP (isc on an older
> 2.3 machine)and I want to update my DNS database when a client requests a
> lease...I.E. add a DNS record for a host when it is assigned an address out of
> my DHCP pool. Is there an option to do this or do I have to hack dhcp a little?
> ------------------
> Trevor R.H. Clarke
> Computer Science House
> Rochester Institute of Technology      Scientific Programmer for CIS
> retrev@csh.rit.edu                     trcpci@cis.rit.edu
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