On Jul 30, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Tony Yarusso wrote: > DNS does not assign addresses - DHCP does. You need to add two things > to your dhcpd.conf. First, tell it that 164 is an exception to the > pool range (so it doesn't try to hand that out to any other machines). > Then, tell it to always give 164 to the machine with a MAC address > matching that of the client in question (a "static lease"). This last point isn't quite true. The DHCP will query "Is x.x.x.164 available?" (install/run wireshark... ISC polls about every 4-5 minutes I think) and if it doesn't get a "I have x.x.x.164!" response it will mark it as assignable... and when it tries to assign it will query the network again in case that IP shows up in the interim. -- Ryan