William Warren wrote: > I highly appreciate everyone's help in the caching name server bit. > Building on that one: > > 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. 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 will have to setup keys between dhcpd and named for the zone(s) that will allow dynamic updates.