Something is Fishy About My Network

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Thu Mar 5 18:02:27 UTC 2009


Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Suggestion #2 (if you are up to it):  Disable DHCP serving in your
>> router and setup a DHCP server on a Linux machine.  You can set up the
>> dchp.conf file to do everything your touter is doing.  If this machine
>> is also running DNS, there are some ways to get them to talk to each
>> other so that DNS knows the names of machines served by the DHCP server.
>> This is not trivial, and requires in depth knowledge of both protocols
>> to get to work right.  Possibly including depricated configuration options.
> 
> I think you're overstating the complexity of this.  It shouldn't be that
> hard for him to get it working with dnsmasq.  Also, what aspect of the
> configuration do you think is deprecated?

The Linux DHCP server no longer has the right hooks to fix up BIN 
directly.  It needs another tool to help out.  The "old" way of doing 
that is no longer supported and is deprecated.  At least according to 
the documentation the last time I read it (about 5 years ago).

> Matt Flaschen

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