William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
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.
This is probably best.
If you're using Samba, you should probably setup WINS with the same server as a WINS-to-DNS proxy as fallback.
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 can setup BIND 9 (and some 8.x versions?) to do Dynamic DNS (DDNS). Windows clients should attempt to register their names in the DDNS server by default.