Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? Ok, you *have* confused me with the OP. We run almost *no* Windows here, at least on the servers or workstations we support in this division. They do actual science here, and Windows...rotfl! running scientific compute clusters? To do what, figure out the first 100 decimal places of pi in a month? And running another DHCP server on the network is *not* a Good Thing, and I feel as though we'd get a lot of grief if we did. Rules and regulations, forget "corporate" rules. mark