DHCP on external router (D-Link DI-624), DNS on Fedora

From: Bruce Feist (bfeist_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 11/26/05

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    Ultimate goal: Get Samba, email, and httpd working on a Fedora-based
    system, serving a home network. The network is masqueraded to the
    outside world through an IDSL connection; the Fedora box serves as the
    gateway, and there's a separate D-Link DI-624 unit which routes
    non-server traffic to the internet using a cable connection,
    independantly of the Fedora box.

    Right now, the DI-624 is the DHCP server. I don't fully understand the
    relationship between it and DNS; I'd like to have either the 624 or the
    Fedora box act as a local name server. Does the 624 broadcast
    information about every address assignment which the Fedora system can
    pick up? Is it the responsibility of the individual computers on the
    network to broadcast their name and address information? Or, is there
    no way for the DNS server to deal with the DHCP-allocated names? Do I
    need to have Fedora do the DHCP serving instead of the 624? I'm confused.

    I think that I should be using split DNS, but that seems kind of messy
    without built-in support in bind. Are there any plans for bind to be
    enhanced to understand DNS splitting, so that a single DNS process could
    take care of both internet and local requests?

    Thanks,
    Bruce Feist 

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