From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01CAC624.CEEAF606" Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:50:24 -0700 Message-ID: <621112A569DAE948AD25CCDCF1C0753329990B@dolly.ntdom.cupdx> References: <37253397a2546c809c04ab86f7e2b009@yyc.orthanc.ca> From: "Benjamin Huntsman" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] DNS dynamic update Topicbox-Message-UUID: ec583ffc-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01CAC624.CEEAF606 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> (because it supplies the correct info for non-Plan 9 hosts). > >What info did your hosts need that Plan 9's dhcpd didn't supply? Specifically, Plan 9's dhcpd does not supply a context-specific DNS = suffix (ie, default domain name), which Windows systems need in order to = resolve hosts by short name. That is, if my internal DNS zone is = home.local, and I have a system ns2.home.local, if dhcpd doesn't tell a = Windows box that it's dns suffix should be home.local, then it will be = able to resolve ns2.home.local, but not just ns2. I looked at the dhcpd code, but it was easier to just have ISC dhcpd do = the work on a FreeBSD system, since I already had it set up. Plan 9's = DNS does what I need it to (except the dynamic updates) and was easier = to set up than BIND. 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