Re: [Sheflug] DHCP again

[Steve Tickle <s.tickle [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:40 pm, Richard Stevenson wrote:
>
> I suspect those docs are misleading, or unclear.  The DHCP server merely
> hands out IP addresses and host configuration information (routers,
> netmask, dns server locations, etc).  The daemon doesn't actually provide
> any name resolution services; you need to run BIND or one of djb's tools
> for that capability (or have some sort of centrally-maintained hosts
> file).

Thanks for that.
How do I set up BIND to pick up the IP/hostnames from dhcpd then? Or would I 
be better using one of djb's tools (djbdns?) since I seem to recall seeing 
people post that djbdns is arguably preferable to BIND.

Thanks

Steve
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