[ILUG] IP addresses

[Jeremy Smyth]

Quoting jac1 <jac1 at student.cs.ucc.ie>:

> Under DHCP,a computer is automatically assigned an IP address.
> How can I get 
> the IP address assigned to a computer without physically being
> at the 
> computer? i should state that i know nowt about networking.

Ooops. Right, you need  a DNS server integrated with your DHCP server.

Bind 8.2.4 (DNS) has dynamic update capability - a script called dhcp-
dns ( http://cpl.net/~carville/DHCP-DNS/dhcp-dns.html ) should sort 
you out.

There are probably other ways - this is the only one I know.

/jer



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