Re: [Ldapdns-users] DHCP Leases

[Mrs. B. <mrs...@ni...>]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 02:00 +0000, Jamie Thompson wrote:
> Hello, I'll start by thanking you for ldapdns, it's great, but that
> aside I have a query I hope you could help with.
> 
> I'm trying to migrate as much of my network config to a dynamic ldap
> directory (OpenLDAP), and I'm doing quite well overall, but my current
> stumbling block is dynamically updating my DNS from my DHCP leases, as
> I used to with my previous BIND9+DHCP3 solution (which worked very
> well, TBH). I'm currently using Debian sarge's ldapdns package
> (2.05-5) and a custom Debian package of ISC's dhcp3-server (3.0.1)
> with G. Masney's LDAP patch. I was hoping that the LDAP patch would
> store the leases in the directory...but alas no such luck. I'd rather
> not have to go back to BIND9 just for the dynamic updates as I now
> have a surprisingly good ldapdns+dnscache configuration.
> 
> As both programs now have ldap support I have a few further avenues of
> enquiry, but I thought I'd check with the list to see I haven't missed
> something silly, like ldapdns supporting BIND-style dynamic updates
> somehow (though if it does I couldn't find mention of it in the source
> package). As ldapdns just resolves from the directory, do you think my
> best bet would be to hack away at dhcp to get it somehow storing
> leases in LDAP rather than worry about adding dynamic updates to
> ldapdns?

Consider configuring your dhcp server to run a script with the changes
in it that pull a ldapmodify/ldapadd command.