Re: dynamic dns server for unix wanted

Sbragion Denis (infotecn@tin.it)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:37:07 +0200

Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980422083707.007e6ac0@MBox.InfoTecna.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:37:07 +0200
To:	"Bryan \"SMASH\" Manternach" <smash@palladium.corp.sgi.com>
From:	Sbragion Denis <infotecn@tin.it>
Subject: Re: dynamic dns server for unix wanted
In-Reply-To: <353CC5B5.A74C519F@corp.sgi.com>

Hello,

At 09.13 21/04/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I was under the impression that BIND 8.x could be updated on
>the fly, and that it could be set up to respond to discovery
>messages from outside sources like other BIND 8.x servers,
>and with some creative programming, or perl scripting, you
>could make it talk to things like DHCP servers in order to
>get host mappings to be automated in DNS. (Kind of like the
>automatic DNS updates in an all NT enviornment with DHCP)

Wow. I was just wondering it for this purpose because we have a DHCP
environment and some brain damaged products doesn't like having NetBIOS
name != hostname. Could you get me some more information ? Have you ever
tried it ?

Thanks in advance.

Bye !

Dr. Sbragion Denis
InfoTecna
Tel, Fax: +39 39 2324054
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