Newbie: Fedora Core 4 as a DHCP & DNS server
 

Hey guys/gals.
I need a push in the right direction on the matters of making a Fedora Core 4 machine a DHCP and a DNS server.

My questions are as follows.

Where do I start? Can Linux itself be the dhcp and dns without any other applications installed?
Are there any utilities I need installed?
How do I go about starting something like this?
Which services would DHCP and DNS use? Also, which files would I have to edit?

I'm experienced with networks, and even a little Linux, but I've never used/configured a DNS or DHCP server that was running on linux. So in a nutshell, I'm a little lost.

Basically I need a jumpstart from you guys, information-wise.


I really appreciate the help.

Thanks in advance.

Fc4
 

FC4 comes with bind 9 for DNS. Information on configuring bind can be found here
Also a http://www.google.com/linux search of setup bind will also return many results.

There are a few dhcp packages that come with FC4. I'm not sure which ones you need, but the ones that come with are
[ ] dhcp-3.0.2-12.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 13:16 591K
[ ] dhcp-devel-3.0.2-12.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 13:16 113K
[ ] dhcpv6-0.10-13.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 15:10 205K
[ ] dhcpv6_client-0.10-13.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 15:10 70K

I'm guessing that the dhcpv6 are for ipv6 dhcp servers. I would install dhcp-3.0 and dhcp-devel-3.0. Information on how to setup dhcp can be found here as well with a google search.

Most appreciated sir.

Thanks again!

can not start dhcp server
 

hi all,

I have problem with starting dhcp server.

My computer running fedora core 4 with network card.

eth0 ip 192.168.1.1
eth1 ip 192.168.0.98

i have config dhcpd.conf by using eth0 to provide ip to client.


and also set /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
DHCPDARGS=eth0

but when i try to start dhcp i got the following errow.

Discarding datagram from IP 192.168.0.98 source name Fedserver <00> is one of our name.

what is the problem?