Trouble setting up a failover dhcp-server

[Glenn Satchell]

On 07/26/10 02:39, budiw at rootbox.or.id wrote:
>>   Well, one place the "domain-name-servers" are given by name, not by IP.
>>
>> Some clients may be smart enough to reject that because they will never
>> get started, who should resolve those names for them?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Oh ic, I should replace the line:
>   option domain-name-servers a.ns1.rootbox.or.id, a.ns2.rootbox.or.id;
>
> with
>   option domain-name-servers 203.114.226.34, 203.114.226.30;
>
> I'll try it.. and posted the results..
>
> Thank you.

No that's fine. The dhcp *server* resolves the hostnames when it starts 
up. Using hostnames, rather than IP addresses, is a strongly recommended 
best practise.

If you snoop the traffic to the clients you will see the DNS server IP 
addresses included in the responses.

What version of dhcpd are you using? What is the server's operating system?

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-glenn
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