Dynamic Host DNS Registration

[Sten Carlsen]

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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