Can you run DNS Server with IP assigned by DHCP?

Nathan Champion saltairz at ihug.co.nz
Wed Jan 5 05:32:15 UTC 2000



Cricket Liu wrote:
> 
> > One possible complication, however, is that since you're getting your
> > address via DHCP, your ISP may be telling you what nameservers to use via
> > DHCP also, and this may be overriding your static resolver configuration.
> 
> Actually, it's the other way around.  Static resolver configuration
> overrides
> DHCP-assigned configuration.
> 
> > If this is the case, then unless you can convince your ISP to tell your
> > machine to use itself as a nameserver, you may have to figure out a way to
> > make your machine ignore the nameserver information in DHCP and use the
> > statically-configured information instead. How you would do this, frankly
> > I don't have a clue, other than to speculate that it would be very
> > dependent on your DHCP client implementation.
> 
> The bigger question is what you put in your static resolver configuration.
> You can't use your real IP address, since you don't know it until DHCP
> assigns it, and if I recall correctly, Windows stacks don't like address
> 0.  I guess you could try the loopback address, but I don't know that
> the Microsoft DNS Server listens on the loopback address.

Im pretty sure MS DNS does listen for requests on its loopback address


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> 
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