On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:59 -0500, Jay Leafey wrote: > I had the same issue on my local network (DHCP server could not update > DNS) so I cobbled up a shell script that runs periodically to update DNS > manually. It does a ping-sweep using "nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24" and > parses the output. The output (obfuscated and abbreviated) looks like this: > > > Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2010-07-16 20:53 CDT > > Host 192.168.1.1 appears to be up. > > MAC Address: **:**:**:**:**:** (Unknown) > > Host 192.168.1.2 appears to be up. > > MAC Address: **:**:**:**:**:** (Compaq Computer) > > Host workstation.local (192.168.1.5) appears to be up. > > MAC Address: **:**:**:**:**:** (Hewlett Packard) > > Host printer.local (192.168.1.9) appears to be up. > > In my case, I added the MAC address/DNS name pairs in /etc/ethers and > use that to drive the process. I've even got a few VMware hosts with > bridged interfaces, they work the same as the physical machines. > > Admittedly, it's a heck of a kludge. --- Awsome but a Day Late and a Dollar Short && Care to share that shell script please. && Why you scrub the MACS? John