Re: [PLUG] DNS trouble shooting and DHCP/DNS connection

[Chad Waters <chad@waterz.net>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:01:38AM -0700, Sijian Zhou wrote:
> I have 2 questions about DNS:
> 1. I have LinkSys NR041 router which has DHCP server
> running. How do a DNS server get dynamic ip address
> from this DHCP server?

Use a service like dyndns.org. 

You can sign up for hostnames xxxx.homelinux.org or others.

And then CNAME that to xyz.mydomain.com.

Last time I checked, this was free.

> 2. I have a hostname xyz defined in DNS. At DNS
> client, I can ping xyz.mydomain.com. However I can't
> ping xyz. Error message: ping: unknown host xyz.

Add:

search mydomain.com.
to /etc/resolve.conf on the querying machine.

-C

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