Dynamic Host DNS Registration

Jim Logan jllogan at bigfoot.com
Fri Jul 8 02:17:40 UTC 2005


Danny Mayer wrote:

> Don't allow your Windows systems to update the DNS zone, have the DHCP
> server do that. It's too insecure and much harder to manage the way you
> are proposing. A DHCP server can send both A and PTR records as
> necessary to BIND. You can also configure DHCP to authenticate itself
> (with TSIG, IIRC) and only allow that system to update DNS.

I don't think my SMC router/DHCP-server can do that.  I'll eventually 
have to get DHCP working on my server I guess...

-Jim



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