Eric Sandeen
2016-02-25 22:09:29 UTC
Say I have host fred, with ip address 1.2.3.4.
I could do:
dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,fred,1.2.3.4
so that fred always gets 1.2.3.4 when it asks.
But as far as I can tell, unless fred has an active lease, DNS
lookups for fred will fail. Right now it looks like I need
to also do:
host-record=fred,1.2.3.4
to get DNS to answer the query if fred has gone missing.
Do I really need to have 2 directives to cover both cases?
It would be nice if a dhcp-host entry with a fixed IP address
would always result in a host record, so I could query the IP
IP address of a hostname even if that host has no active lease.
This would also cover the case where a host has a static IP
configured within the host and never asks for a DHCP lease.
Are the 2 lines above required (or even correct), or is there
a better way to do this? Or am I doing something dumb here?
Thanks,
-Eric
I could do:
dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,fred,1.2.3.4
so that fred always gets 1.2.3.4 when it asks.
But as far as I can tell, unless fred has an active lease, DNS
lookups for fred will fail. Right now it looks like I need
to also do:
host-record=fred,1.2.3.4
to get DNS to answer the query if fred has gone missing.
Do I really need to have 2 directives to cover both cases?
It would be nice if a dhcp-host entry with a fixed IP address
would always result in a host record, so I could query the IP
IP address of a hostname even if that host has no active lease.
This would also cover the case where a host has a static IP
configured within the host and never asks for a DHCP lease.
Are the 2 lines above required (or even correct), or is there
a better way to do this? Or am I doing something dumb here?
Thanks,
-Eric