Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, <m.roth at 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. mark