[clug] Update a Windows dynamic DNS server with linux client?

[Steve Jenkin]

>From my somewhat erratic memory....

On Win2K DHCP both the server _and_ the client get to update the DNS.
I think one registers the forward name lookup and the other the reverse
[IP nr]...

Hopefully one of our resident SAMBA team will know this definitively.

HTH
sj

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 14:27, Michael Still wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Brad Hards wrote:
> 
> > There aren't any easy questions in DNS.
> > 1. Is the DHCP coming from the Win2000 boxen or another server?
> 
> Another win2000 box.
> 
> > 2. Do you want the Linux client to do the updating, or should the DHCP server 
> > do it? If the client, are you using dhclient?
> 
> It's a linux box, on a LAN which is entirely Windows. I just want the box 
> to do the DNS thing like a Windows box.
> 
> > 3. Are you configured to only accept GSS-TSIG updates on the Server?
> 
> I don't own the server. I assume it will be doing whatever is the windows 
> default.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mikal
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