IP addresses are hadned out by a DHCP server.. usually dhcpd .. BIND
handles the name -> ip address resolution.. it is a DNS server..for a
small home network (mine has 3 machines) I use a DHCP server.. and then
just host files.. because the IP addresses of each machine rarely change..
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:
> I've never really untangled DNS for myself, but I'm working on
> understanding it right now. One question comes up that I don't seem to
> have an answer for. I know there's a dhcpcd, which grabs an IP address
> from a nameserver. And I know there's BIND, which serves up IP
> addresses. I thought there was a DHCP server daemon as well, which
> would perform the function of serving up IP addresses on small networks.
> Is that not the case, or do I need to run BIND to hand out IP addresses?
>
> Paul
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