[Gllug] DHCP & DNS

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:22:40AM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 Dec 2001, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> >I would like to set up a range of DHCP addresses on my home network so that
> >I can just plug my machine (and vistors) in and they'll get access without
> >recnfiguring them.  
> >The problem I have is with DNS.  I would like to be able to have my
> >machines keep there hostnames with diffrent ip addresses. So if I plug my
> >laptop in and it gets ip 10.0.0.5 then when I do 
> >host laptop.mynetwork 
> >I want to get 10.0.0.5
> 
> Don't use 10.0.0.0/8 as a home network.
> 
> That aside, for machines you regularly use, you could set up static
> DHCP assignments using their MAC addresses; this is easily done with
> the ISC dhcpd with sections like this;
>         host foo.example.com {
> 		hardware ethernet 00:30:c1:c4:53:a0;
> 		fixed-address 192.168.101.23;
> 	}

Yeah, forgot to add to my other post, that since I remember it being such a
pain at my last place to do the ddns, I've stuck to the above method at this
house, and would recommend that over ddns.  Besides the fact that we haven't
had too many geeky visitors, they don't really need a ddns entry anyway
(although you can always have generic dns entries for dhcp clients).

Pete

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