Dynamic Host DNS Registration
Sten Carlsen
ccc2716 at vip.cybercity.dk
Mon Jul 11 23:24:04 UTC 2005
Your'e welcome
I also have my DHCP-server on the same machine as my DNS-server, works
like a dream.
I found one very nice thing about using the exact same names inside as
well as outside: using a laptop, inside or outside, you don't need to do
anything like having different mail-server names or such things. Only IP
numbers change according to which view you use.
Jim Logan wrote:
> Sten Carlsen wrote:
>
>> I just spotted another piece of trouble coming your way:
>>
>> If you have or ever think of having a MAC or certain other things in
>> your network: DON'T ever use .local as your local TLD-name. .local
>> has a special meaning for MACs (basic building block in "rendevouz",
>> MAC version of UPNP). Use anything else like .lan, .home, .xyz, ...;
>> if you have an external domain name, use that internally as well.
>>
>> I learnt this the hard way; it took me a couple of days to get
>> anything to work on my brand new MAC. I switched from .local to
>> .home. There is a surprisingly large number of places that needs to
>> change.
>
>
> Thanks for the advice! I probably would have used .local! That
> should be in an FAQ somewhere, indexed with common keywords so people
> like me will find it easily, by accident.
>
> Maybe I will take your advice and try using my external domain name,
> even though it's long. I can't think of any place I'll need to type
> it very often, besides when I'm testing with the dig command. <sigh/>
> More playing with sendmail configs after I make the change... :-(
>
> BTW, here's an update on my original question. I went ahead and put a
> DHCP server on the same machine as my DNS server. I had to play
> around with the configuration files for the servers and my PC clients,
> but I finally got everything working. One thing that gave me a lot of
> grief is the WinXP DNS setting, "DNS setting for this connection".
> After I deleted that field, everything started working.
>
> -Jim
>
>
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Best regards
Sten Carlsen
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