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From: Charles Duffy <cduffy@spamcop.net>
Subject: Re: [patch, rfc] put IP addresses into xenstore
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:37:56 -0600
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Gerd Knorr wrote:
> How do you do that?  Assuming there is a dhcp server handing out IP 
> addresses (pretty common these days I think).  Is there some way to ask 
> the dhcp server whenever there is a valid lease for a given mac address? 
>  Other suggestions to figure the IP address for a given domain?

It's fairly common practice to keep this information in DNS -- either 
having your DHCP server issue dynamic DNS updates for 
<hostname>.dhcp.<domainname> or <ethernet-address>.dhcp.<domainname> or 
somesuch.