Hi,

There doesn't seem to be a way to specify a non-fixed domain-name-servers
setting in dhcpd.conf; using whatever's in resolv.conf on the server running
dhcpd would be a good option for many people, who use (i)pppd to
connect to an ISP which provides its own (random) DNS server addresses.

It seems that I'm just echoing the request of several users, notably:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/11/msg03269.html
...except that I actually did run into the same problem recently,
when the ISP changed its automatically assigned addresses - the server
box kept working just fine, but the LAN client machines died because
they kept querying some ancient DNS server addresses which had been
hardcoded into dhcpd.conf many years ago.

Please implement this. TIA.

DDNS can be used to achieve your goal.

Best wishes,
Mike

reopen 495526
thanks

Sorry, I don't understand, what does that mean? How does Dynamic DNS factor
into this at all? Or is DDNS some new acronym for something else?

The issue was that one had to hardcode specific IP addresses of
recursive DNS servers given out to DHCP clients in the DHCP server's
domain-name-servers setting. What I was suggesting is to have a way of
telling the DHCP server to not require that, but that it relays whatever
the system resolver is currently set with.

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