DHCP server can't ping client by host name

Kel Graham kel at orawia.com
Mon Nov 3 16:24:01 GMT 2003


Bruce M Simpson said:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:25:59PM +0000, Paul Civati wrote:
>> Otherwise, you'd have to set up your own dynamic DNS zone (with a key,
>> easy enough to do), but you'd need some way for the laptop to generate
>> the dynamic DNS update, maybe someone somewhere has written a utility
>> to do that..
>
> There would seem to be a plethora of nice utilities for this in ports/dns.
>
> BMS

I think I'll try bind9 and the recent dhcpd server; which appears to be
able to add dns entries when a lease is given out.

Thanks for your help,
Kel.

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