dns/dhcp client - hooks??

[Mark Bidewell]

I think this may be an issue with the Fedora build of dhclient.  I can
successfully update DNS with dhclient on CentOS6 or Ubuntu, but not Fedora.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> kevin.
>
> the whole/partial reason for all of this.
>
> the local system with the dhcp, doesn't have a dns!!!
>
> you come in the lab, connect, you get your ip. as to the external
> world, the dhcp serves the dns for the rest of the world. as to the
> internal boxes, you get an ip, nothing more!!
>
> it wasn't the intent to have boxes hooked up for long... we're bending
> the system... so to do that, we'd rather not have to always recall
> ipaddresses,  so we're going to kludge this..
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Kevin Martin <ktmdms at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 01/21/2014 10:36 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> >> On 01/21/2014 09:54 AM, bruce wrote:
> >>> tim..
> >>>
> >>> i have complete control over the local dns
> >>>
> >>> the local client machines are given hostnames upon creation/boot up..
> >>>
> >>> the idea is to be able to have someone within the local network,
> >>> who'[s machine has been configured to point to the local dns, to be
> >>> able to use the boxname "foo" to get to the machine instead of the
> >>> ipaddress of the "foo" box.
> >>>
> >>> normally,, all of this would be handled by thre dhcp server.. in this
> >>> case it isn't.
> >>>
> >>> so you need to do a kludge which involves updating the local dns
> >>> server/records with the updated mapped ip/name.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
> >>>> Allegedly, on or about 21 January 2014, bruce sent:
> >>>>> some of us who deall with getting dhcp ipp addresses, don't have
> >>>>> access to managing the dhcp server!!!
> >>>>
> >>>> And you have access to a DNS server that you can reprogram??
> >>>>
> >>>> If so, then have a look at the already existing coding for the DHCP
> >>>> servers, and apply the same with your client.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> >>>> Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013
> x86_64
> >>>>
> >>>> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> >>>> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> >>>> public lists.
> >>>>
> >>>> George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny,
> not
> >>>> a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >> can you 'dig @primaryDNS your.domain.com axfr' the primary DNS server?
>  If you  can't you probably won't be able to do what you are
> >> hoping to achieve as the primary name server isn't allowing you to do a
> zone transfer.  You would essentially have to know each and
> >> every host and do a name lookup of each and every host one at a time
> and capture that information and build your zone(s) that way.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
> > better yet, why don't you just point the dns clients to the primary dns
> server, set the domain to search, and do the name resolution
> > that way?
> >
> > Kevin
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