[NTLUG:Discuss] Dynamic Clients & BIND

[Stephen Davidson]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:

>Steve:
>
>You have the same setup as me.
>
>Does your Linux server resolve DNS queries for things
>you do locally?
>  
>
Yep.

>There is nothing I had to do for bind.  Just set
>it up so I can query it.  It automatically checks
>the machine's name servers if it does not know something.
>
>  
>
Nope, and that's my problem.  Ran a sniffer on the segment, and client 
does send packets to dns server asking for addresses.  Just, the BIND 
does not resolve/return any info.  Maybe I am missing something in my 
Bind/named.conf configurations?

>You may have something wrong in your dhcp config.
>
>Here is what I have in my dhcpd.conf file:
>default-lease-time 60000;
>max-lease-time 720000;
>option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
>option routers 192.168.1.1;
>option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
>option domain-name "JAMMConsulting.com";
>ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
>
>subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>  range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.254;
>}
>
>Maybe you are missing one of these directives?
>
>Thanks,
>	Neil
>
>
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Regards,
Steve

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