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

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

kaze wrote:

> This is something I wondered about too, when reading / learning some BIND a
> few weeks ago thanks to the PLUG thread "dig returns "Transfer failed", what
> to do?" You can allow your DNS clients to update the zone files - this is
> turned off by default and in a few places they note that you shouldn't use
> it as it is a security risk. I made a note of this as it is opposite to
> Microsoft's Active Directory model, where by default DHCP and static
> hosts/clients populate DNS.
>  


How about configuring the DHCP server to give out specific IPs based on 
MAC addresses?  That way the IPs will always match up with the host 
names.  Actually, the only benefit of that is central control over 
configuration.  Might as well use /etc/hosts or Dynamic DNS.

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