[TriLUG] DHCP/DNS

[Jon Carnes]

Even if your DLINK cannot pass out reserved DHCP addresses, you can limit the 
range of addresses that it hands out.  For instance, my Linksys only hands 
out addresses above .100 - so all my servers on my internal net use static ip 
addresses of between .2 and .99 (including my cacheing DNS server)

Jon

 --- Original Message: Thursday 25 April 2002 02:22 am ---
> Andy,
>
> You need to be able to setup DHCP reservations so that each machine will
> always get the same ip. I'm not sure if your D-Link router will allow
> you to do this. I would recommend that whatever box you are setting up
> to do DNS also do DHCP and this box would need a static ip. DHCP
> reservations are done by MAC address you can obtain these by using
> ifconfig on linux or ipconfig on widows. You may want to have a few
> addresses that are free and not reserved for something else in the case
> that you are adding boxes temporarily.
>
> You should be able to find help on configuring dhcpd and named on The
> Linux Documentation Project mirrored at http://linux.ncsu.edu/LDP/
>
> Elliot
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 00:57, Andy Hart wrote:
> > I need a little help. I just bought a D-Link router that I'm connecting
> > to a Cable Modem. I have it configured to be a DHCP server. On my linux
> > box, I'd like to setup DNS, but how, the IP addresses are created
> > dynamically? What's the answer?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > - Andy