On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're effectively static.
If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS. Linux tools
<snip> >> Um, no can do: we don't run the DNS here on campus (a US gov't federal >> agency), we have blocks of IPs assigned to us. Within our division, we >> control the horizontal, we control the vertical.... <g> > > If you are giving out DHCP addresses, you are almost certainly giving > out DNS server addresses, and you can point that to one or more that > you control (probably on the same box(es) as the dhcp service). And
Les, you're missing the point: we are not *supposed* to be running a DNS server. There's another division that does that, the same one that assigns us the blocks of IP addresses. Please don't confuse me with the OP.
I don't even understand what that means. Is there a mandate to do things wrong? Would someone fire you if you used windows for your DHCP service and it was a version that had AD running as a DNS service too?