Something is Fishy About My Network

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:02 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> The Linux DHCP server no longer has the right hooks to fix up BIN
> 
> BIND?  (Just in case you're referring to something else that I haven't
> guessed at.)

Yes, my keyboard and my fingers don't always agree on what I want to type.

>> 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).
> 
> If you mean the DHCP server needs special configuration to update DNS
> server records, the previous scheme of allowing clients to do that,
> based on what they're address supposedly is, then yes that's out of
> date.  Since then, the methodology was to use a shared secrets keyfile
> (/etc/rndc.key).
> 
> It's not too hard to integrate the BIND name server with the DHCP server
> Fedora's using, and the skills learnt in doing so are useful for other
> things.  But I think the ease of using dnsmasq is supposed to be that
> much of that nitty-gritty work is taken care of already.  It might
> depend on what else you want to do, DNS- and DHCP-wise.  You can pull
> rabbits out of hats the hard way, I don't know what the limitations of
> using dnsmasq might be.

Agreed.

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