[SGVLUG] How to manage DNS for DHCP-assigned clients?

[Adam Compton]

Jeff Carlson wrote:
> Adam Compton wrote:
>> The question I have is this: how would you all keep track of where a 
>> given computer was on the network, so that it could be administered 
>> remotely and programmatically? For instance, pushing out a new 
>> version of a certain configuration file to each computer as soon as 
>> it comes on the network, wherever it happens to be in IP-space. I've 
>> been given advice to implement dynamic DNS with BIND and DHCP, but I 
>> do not control the DHCP server, so I don't believe that is an option. 
>> What I'm really looking for is descriptions of how other people have 
>> solved similar problems, so I have an idea of what's possible for me 
>> to do in this realm.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "programatically."  For automated 
> administration of a machine, especially to have it grab new config 
> items at boot time, the answer is cfengine.  See www.cfengine.org.

Does cfengine support grabbing new configuration files at boot time? 
That would work wonderfully, thank you!

- Adam Compton