Re: [SLUG] DHCP or BIND

From: Kai Lien (kai@lenseco.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 23:12:03 EST


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dhcpd == dhcp daemon

dhcpcd == dhcp client

You do not need BIND unless you want your own DNS server

Kai

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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