static DNS record and DHCP

[Steve Zeng]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tim
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:15 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: static DNS record and DHCP
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 14:51 -0700, Steve Zeng wrote:
> 
> > Can someone give me some clue on this problem?
> > 
> > I got DHCP 3.0.1 and BIND 9.2.3 configured on Fedora Core 3 to work
> > with Windows 2003 Active Directory. When I manually add some static
> > hosts into DNS zone file, it is deleted automatically after a while.
> > How can I keep them from being removed? I need some static IPs for
> > servers. 
> 
> Are the static IPs outside of the range used by DHCP?

Yes. It is out of the range controlled by DHCP. 

> 
> Did you stop the DNS server and remove the journal (.jnl) files before
> adding in your static addresses?

Why do I need to delete .jnl files? Could you point me to some documentations about this?
I appreciate it.

> 
> You can preset your DHCP server to assign fixed IPs to some hosts,
> that's another way of doing it.  See the man file for details, but you
> can identify a machine to give a fixed IP to by hostname or MAC.
> 
> e.g. Something *like* this in the DHCP configuration file:
> 
>   host fixme {
>        hardware ethernet 00:00:21:25:92:fb;
>        fixed-address 192.168.1.180;
>        option host-name "fixme";
>        update-static-leases on;
>   }
> 
> 
> > my /etc/dhcpd.conf is as follows: 
> >
> > key rndc-key { 
> >   algorithm hmac-md5; 
> >   secret "8mTgBumsU7SEaYkDvE2RvBVYUtwPQCdg/CHV/v2pOGM"; 
> > }
> 
> No longer "secret", change it if that's important to you.
> 
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