William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Everyone knows my issues that i am having in terms of
> reverse lookup so the windows clients won't freak. I
> have decided to switch focus..as it seemed to make sense.
> I am now looking to setup a full DNS server for my internal
> network.
This is probably best.
If you're using Samba, you should probably setup WINS with
the same server as a WINS-to-DNS proxy as fallback.
> Everything is actually set statically via DHCP
> using MAC addresses.(see attached jpeg).
> Do i have to manually enter every machine or can the dns
> populate the names and ips via dhcp?
You can setup BIND 9 (and some 8.x versions?) to do
Dynamic DNS (DDNS). Windows clients should attempt to
register their names in the DDNS server by default.
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