DHCP & DNS

[Steve Searle]

Around 10:25pm on Sunday, October 21, 2007 (UK time), zephod at cfl.rr.com scrawled:

> Yes, I know I could do that. It's OK when there are only 2 boxes but
> what if I had a small office setup with, say, 100 PCs. It's not so
> practical then. I'm interested in finding out if there is another way
> to make this work.

An office setup that you described would probably do this using a domain
name server (DNS) such as BIND.  This would serve public internet
addresses as well as the private network ones - the DHCP server can
update the DNS with the dynamic addresses when it allocates them.

You can set this up on your GNU/Linux box - I run one for my small home
network.  Note that if you do, your Windows box would need to be set to
point to the GNU/Linux one its primary DNS, but you would want a
secondrary DNS server for when the GNU/Linux one is down.

You can find some instructions I have written here:
http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#bind

Steve

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