It is my understanding that I should be able to enable DHCP and then do a ping on the hostname of a workstation with a dynamic IP address, and if I am properly configured, the hostname of the ping should be able resolve.
It's not. If I hardcode the IP address in the zone maps, dhcp.conf and /etc/hosts, DNS resolves resolves the hostname and ping works as expected. But then, if I do all that, then I am not really using DHCP either. If I comment out the IP address from the /etc/hosts file, then ping can't find the dynamic host by name.
I have verified that both DNS, and DHCP are working. If I renew a DHCP lease, I get the router and DNS servers that are listed in dhcp.conf. I can ping my dynamic workstation from the workstation itself. I can ping the DNS aliases (created via CNAME). But I can't ping the dynamic workstation from the server.
I suppose that I could go back to hard-coding everything, but that would be really annoying.
-- A. Rick Anderson
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