On Saturday 05 August 2006 04:39, Tim wrote:
>On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:16 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Ok I had this:
>> ddns-update-style interim;
>> ignore client-updates;
>>
>> # we want the nameserver to appear at a fixed address
>> host ns {
>> next-server gene.coyote.den;
>> hardware ethernet 00:04:4B:5D:EB:7D;
>> fixed-address 192.168.71.1;
>> }
>> }
>> Which may not be correct in itself :( but it worked.
>
>Meaning, if you had a machine with the above MAC (00:04:4B:5D:EB:7D),
>it'll get assigned that IP address (192.168.71.1), and told to use the
>hostname of "ns" (which gets expanded to the ns.gene.coyote.den FQDN).
>
>If you're not using a PC as a dedicated name server, with that domain
>name, you may as well remove the entire clause.
>
The dhcp server is actually running on this machine, 192.168.71.3.
>> And I've added this below that:
>> group {
>> # we want the lappy at a fixed address too
>> host diablo {
>> hardware ethernet 00:14:A5:75:32:C9;
>> fixed address 192.168.71.5;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> But a network restart on the lappy is still getting 192.168.71.102?
>
>Obvious questions:
>Is the MAC correct?
Thats a copy/paste from the lappies ifconfig output.
>Is the laptop set to configure its IP via DHCP?
Yes.
I'll give it some more exersize later, I just got back from a maintainance
shift at the tv transmitter & need some winks.
>On my system, I also included an 'option host-name "diable";' style of
>entry within the braces. Just to help ensure the device used the
>hostname I wanted it to.
>
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>
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