On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > 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. 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com