William Warren <hescominsoon at 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. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)