Dynamic DNS

Comatose51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 103

I have my little Linux box running inside a 99% Windows environment. Our company runs Active Directory, DHCP, and DNS using Windows 2003. Everything is nice and dandy when you're running Windows XP. You get your IP, your hostname is registered with the DNS server, etc. However, this doesn't work with my Linux(Gentoo) box. It gets an IP address but it can't seen to register itself with the DNS server.

How can I fix that? I've been told that dhclient works better than dhcpcd for this. Is that true?

Thanks.

adaptr · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:34 am Post subject:

Active Directory is an amalgam of different services which all have to work together to provide the environment you know.
You can't get registered in an AD DNS server without belonging to the AD domain; use Samba to add the Gentoo box to the domain as a workstation or a member server.

Depending on what you want the box to do, you may or may not need to set up any of the following to successfully integrate into an AD:
- kerberos 5
- samba/winbind
- ldap
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Mit · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

man dhcp

try sending a 'hostname' with the DHCP request

in the net conf file under dhcp options something like '-h computer_name'
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