Blake, It's referred to as either a fixed address or a client reservation, creating a static wins address is used for unix machines that don't register with a wins server, this allows for a windows machine to resolve the hostname or psuedo netbios name to an IP address, this is critical for windows machines especially in a routed environment. The "hybrid" solution your talking about is Dynamic DNS or utilizing SRV records, which is supported in the later versions of BIND and is an RFC, in which your named records are dynamically updated as dhcp leases are given. hope that helps....... -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Barnett, Blake Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:03 AM To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us' Subject: RE: DHCP and fixed IP addresses I have also heard this and would be interested in having it explained. I know it's possbile in windows NT via static wins addresses, and I've seen hybrid DNS/DHCP solutions but not specifically for linux.. * Blake -----Original Message----- From: Tim M. Sanders [mailto:tsanders@mvista.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:04 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: DHCP and fixed IP addresses I am the "voluntary" IT person at the company I work for. We use DHCP for IP addressing. I have heard (and maybe read) that there is a way to make it so a host gets the same IP address forever. In essence, providing a fixed IP address via the DHCP process. Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks. -- - ============================ Tim M. Sanders MontaVista Software 2141 E. Broadway Rd,. Suite 108 Tempe, AZ 85282 http://www.mvista.com tsanders@mvista.com (480) 517-5032 (office) (480) 221-3472 (cell) _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss