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While using BIND for name resolution, say within a small intranet, we have to specify the IP addresses and the Hostnames of all the computers on our intranet, in the zone files. right? What if the IP addresses to the hosts are assigned dynamically by DHCP. Please solve this.
Name: Danny Larouche Date: April 8, 2002 at 06:49:18 Pacific
Reply:
The name of computers will follow the ip. Then you should have something like:
1 IN PTR host1.domain.com. 2 IN PTR host2.domain.com. 3 IN PTR host3.domain.com. ...
If you really need to assign name such as mail.domain.com or www.domain.com... Most advanced router have capability to reserve some IP based on the MAC address of some servers.
Anyway, i never recommend to use DHCP if you are not an ISP (for customers ip range).
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Response Number 2
Name: Ams Date: April 11, 2002 at 08:06:36 Pacific
Reply:
Thanx Dear Danny,
Thanx for the response. Well I know that in zone files the hostnames should follow the IP addresses. But on my network, the hosts are assigned IP addresses dynamically by DHCP. So a computer may not keep the same IP every time. So in this situation what should I do?
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