[geeks] synchronizing dhcp and bind

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:48:38PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I frequently add and remove machines from my network, and it would be
> nice if I did not have to manually update dhcpd.conf and the DNS entries
> every time.
> 
> It's annoying every time I want to change IP->name mappings to have to
> do it in both bind configuration and dhcpd.
> 
> Is there some way to tell dhcpd to use DNS to find the IP addresses,
> given a fixed hostname, instead of using a fixed IP address?

>From my dhcpd.conf:

allow bootp;
ddns-update-style none;
option domain-name "xxxxxx.com";
max-lease-time 72000;
default-lease-time 72000;
option routers xxx.xxx.xxx.1;
option domain-name-servers xxx.xxx.xxx.1;

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	host  games
        	{
	        fixed-address  games;
	        hardware ethernet 00:A0:C9:37:C7:2E;
	         option host-name "games";
	        }



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