Host Dynamic DNS configuration for 8.2-RELEASE

Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Thu Dec 29 23:52:57 UTC 2011


On 12/30/11 08:06, akshay sreeramoju wrote:
> Thanks Matthew. It works.
>
> Akshay
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Seaman<
> m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>  wrote:
>
>> On 29/12/2011 20:11, akshay sreeramoju wrote:
>>> What is the required configuration in a FreeBSD 8.2 release host for it
>> to
>>> publish its name in a dynamic dns supported network?
>> Something like this in /etc/dhclient.conf:
>>
>> interface "em0" {
>>         send host-name "foo.example.com";
>> }
>>
>> See dhclient.conf(5), particularly the EXAMPLES section at the end.
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>
>>         Matthew
>>
>>
>
FWIW, I never have to set anything to get it to do this. I use ISC DHCP 
and BIND9 for DDNS and all my config is done on the dhcp _server_ 
config, not the clients. The clients are simply installed and go... :)


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