WTF ISC
The way my home network is set up, all I really have to do to get a new machine on the network is plop the MAC address in a host declaration and forget about it, since I’ve got dynamic DNS updating working. However, the new Wii doesn’t send a hostname all the time: it asks for “Wii” when it’s downloading the weather and all that jazz, but nothing when you launch the web browser — sorry, “internet channel”.
A quick Google, and I found this little gem. (Scroll down to the comments.)
Long story short:
ddns-hostname = host-decl-name;
and now I can continue plopping things in dhcpd.conf, and DNS takes care of itself. I just add a host declaration with the MAC address:
host foo { hardware ethernet ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff; }
and a new host magically appears as foo.WIRELESS.LAN.
(I don’t know why I caps it like that.)
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