Re: [Sheflug] DHCP again

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

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:40 am, Alex Hudson wrote:

> Hmm, I've only taken a brief look, but it looks sane - nothing obviously
> obviously wrong. The one thing I would query - your BIND setup seems
> to be saying 'accept updates from 192.168.1.30', but your dhcp setup
> says 192.168.1.30 is the name server. Is the bind on the same server
> as the dhcp server? In that case, having 192.168.1.30 in the dynamic
> allocation range (as it appears to be) seems a bit bonkers.
>
Yes, the DHCP and BIND servers are on the same box. I allocated 192.168.1.30 
as a static IP adress to that box. Maybe that's not the recommended method.
Perhaps I should make the DHCP/BIND server 192.168.1.31 or something.

> Best thing to do would be to tail the logs - e.g., for bind, do a
> tail -f /var/log/named.log (or whatever the log file is, daemon.log or
> something, I can never remember :o). That will provide a 'live' view to
> stuff that happens - do that while you bring a machine online for DHCP
> discovery, and see if BIND squeaks when you do something?

I'll try tthat, thanks.

Steve
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