RE: Dynamic DNS

[Aaron <aaron greyhour com>]

I agree with what you are saying

and am aware of the benefits

but I still do not believe that because DHCP and DNS lack that as they are now means that either are useless without the other.  

Sometimes all one cares about is that people have an ip address when they boot up their machine and that they can resolve.

Aaron
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Brian Hand wrote:

> Why would you want to maintain a network of IP's and not have the ability
> to track your client devices, through web server log files for
> example makes your job as a webmaster impossible to do decent metrics of
> the utilization of the webserver as to how many machines are really
> hitting your server.  Sure you can have the webserver do reverse
> lookups but lets just slow that webserver down to a crawl doing it.  When
> you implement a DHCP network, it is a challenge to quickly attach a
> specific IP to a specfic MAC address and hence a specific client machine A
> solid DDNS server, should be included in the BIND package that goes hand
> in hand with DHCP otherwise the benefits of DHCP in a enterprise large
> scale installation is just a disaster.  You trade in the ease a managing
> IP's for a set of all new problems that make your job as a network admin
> arguably harder.  A good DDNS implementation on linux to provide a
> 'complete' solution to DHCP I belive should be a top proiority. 
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Aaron wrote:
> 
> > Why would you say that DHCP is useless without DDNS?
> > 
> > The idea of DHCP isn't to report YOUR address but to hand OUT addresses
> > 
> > at least that's my take
> > 
> > Aaron
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> > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Brian Hand wrote:
> > 
> > > Guys,
> > > 
> > > There is an implementation done by cisco that is a part of there DHCP
> > > solution that does ddns.  No coding, just configuration.  Can we not do
> > > this in linux?  I would be disapointed if an RPM doesn't exist.  If it
> > > doesn't exist maybe the BIND guys need to get on it.  DHCP is IMHO kind of
> > > useless without and DDNS componet that is coupled with it.
> > > 
> > > Bria
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Good Times wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I just looked at the perldoc page for Net::DNS
> > > > 
> > > > and there are methods and such for doing dynamic updates
> > > > 
> > > > if you're a C guy you can go that route, but if you're not, the Perl way may
> > > > be an option
> > > > 
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Good Times [mailto:aaron greyhour com]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:43 AM
> > > > > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > > > > Subject: RE: Dynamic DNS
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > i think you might be able to do it in perl on the box
> > > > >
> > > > > i know there are some Net::DNS modules that may have a notify method
> > > > >
> > > > > if so then it would be pretty simple
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: Kevin Colby [mailto:kevinc grainsystems com]
> > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:17 AM
> > > > > > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > > > > > Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Good Times wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Then you are definitely going to want to go the programming
> > > > > > > route on the Win98 box.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Exactly.  This would be ideal.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > However, the coding effort required here is beyond simple
> > > > > > scripting.  You'd really need a good C compiler to hack
> > > > > > this out, I think.  I should probably look at it sometime.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 	- Kevin Colby
> > > > > > 	  kevinc grainsystems com
> > > > > >
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