Setting up DNS

How can I assign a domain name on a local network to a device, if the IP address comes from a DHCP server, and is therefore liable to change?

Posted on May 19, 2015 10:11 AM

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May 20, 2015 3:07 AM in response to benwiggy

What you are describing and requesting is Dynamic DNS. Apple unfortunately don't support this, the underlying DNS server software Apple use which is called 'named' aka. 'BIND' does support this but in order for this to work you also need a DHCP server that can be integrated with the DNS server so that when the client gets a new IP address via DHCP it informs the DNS server so the DNS server can update the record to match.


Apple's DHCP server definitely does not support this.


Note: In theory you can manually configure BIND to do its half of this, however this would all have to be done by hand not via Apple's front-end. Frankly not worth the grief.


Microsoft's DNS and DHCP servers do support this and this is actually needed for Active Directory to work properly.

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