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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by icedchai on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:31PM (#22271834)
For internal networks, you set up a couple of local DNS servers. These servers are set up as slaves for all your local zones. DHCP provides those servers to the clients. Done. This is very simple and has worked for decades.
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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by geocar on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:37AM (#22274347)
These are Internet hosts.

You don’t run dhcp and update your dns from a client supplied unauthenticated field unless you’ve got no idea what you’re doing.

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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by icedchai on Saturday February 08, 2020 @04:57PM (#22278705)
That's good. DNS works with the Internet. ;)

I'm talking about providing a the DNS server list to update the client's resolv.conf, not updating the DNS server's host entries dynamically from the clients.

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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by geocar on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:45PM (#22280266)
> I'm talking about providing a the DNS server list to update the client's resolv.conf, not updating the DNS server's host entries dynamically from the clients.

Why?

This isn't what anyone else is talking about.

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