<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Neal Zimmermann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 22:03 -0500, Robert Nesius wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Tony Yarusso <<a href="mailto:tonyyarusso@gmail.com">tonyyarusso@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">DNS does not assign addresses - DHCP does.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">He can assign the address in DNS as long as he sets the ip address<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">statically on the client.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Perhaps I'm just being pedantic. :) I tend to prefer DHCP reservations<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">myself.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-Rob<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">You need to add two things<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to your dhcpd.conf. First, tell it that 164 is an exception to the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">pool range (so it doesn't try to hand that out to any other machines).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Then, tell it to always give 164 to the machine with a MAC address<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">matching that of the client in question (a "static lease").<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> - Tony Yarusso<br></blockquote></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6a0303"><br></font>Tony is right, I needed DHCP to set the addresses on the clients. What<br>I am trying to do is to let the computers here to get their addresses <br>via an automated process. The static addresses are needed to let nfs<br>securely attach. I still need to set the DNS server addresses<br>manually at each client - that is the next nut to crack.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Why? You can't get that running with your DHCP server? ISC supports it quite easily.</div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; "> option domain-name-servers 10.1.0.12 8.8.8.8;</span>"</div><div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I got DHCP to do that (verifying each machine by it's mac). Now I would<br>like (need) to get the caching DNS working. That may speed up<br>connecting to the internet sites that I am interested in.<br><br>Well, a deep breath here and back into the fray.<br><br>tayl<br><br>Neal<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>