[TriLUG] dhcp issues

[Dan]

--On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 08:37:20 PM -0400 Jeremy Portzer 
<jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Chris Bullock wrote:
>
>> I believe what you are looking for is dynamic DNS.  Windows uses its own
>> protocol to talk to each other, meaning you dont even need a DNS server
>> for a windows doamin to be able to talk to each other.  We attempted to
>> get dynamic DNS working at our office with no luck.  However, we
>> establish DHCP reservation and then put that IP and hostname in DNS.
>> Resolves both ways now.
>
> What you say isn't wrong per se, but dynamic DNS "normally" refers to a
> DNS zone set at an outside party, such as dyndns.org, easydns.com, etc.
> This is commonly used to update your DNS record for a server behind a
> dynamic IP connection such as cable modems or DSL.

to be pedantic, what he said was correct 
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2136.html>

DDNS originally meant just that, making BIND and DNS work together.


-- 
Dan