Automatically get nameservers

Peter Nyamukusa petern at africaonline.co.zw
Tue Jan 9 15:29:14 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:38, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 7:56 am, George Vanev wrote:
> > I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box
> > to get the nameservers automatically.
> > Can you tell me how this may be done?!
> > Regerds
>
> I think the best solution would be to configure the FreeBSD box as a
> caching nameserver, then point all your windows boxes to it.

I think you will need to have DHCP running in your network as DHCP is the only 
way to automatically get nameservers regardless of the OS you are using

Hope this helps

Regards
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