Clarification on roles of networking components.

[Flaschen, Matthew S]

> Now I've caught up on some sleep I can continue with a clearer head.
> The single server has 2 nics, one internal the other to the dsl router.
> For now internal name resolution and dhcp is the issue, but more
> internal services will be added down the road, as well as web server
> usw.  I started with dhcpd but this does seem more powerful than I need
> now.

I would say dhcpd is less powerful (for your purposes), because it does not integrate DNS and DHCP automatically.  Now in many cases dhcpd is perfect, but since you want name resolution for all hosts I think dnsmasq is a better choice.

Matt Flaschen