help with DNS/BIND/DHCPd

[Merv Curley]

On Saturday 21 January 2006 09:16, Hroller McKnutt wrote:
>  Help, my brain is melting! :)
>
>  I'm trying to get my local network to do some tricks and I'm
> having no luck.
>
>  This all started with my router, I was looking at the LAN info and
> the one Windows machine on the network identifies itself as
> "fingerloop", while the linux boxes (both kubuntu 5.1, one upgraded
> from 5.04 and one from ubuntu 5.04) show just the IP address. Is
> there some way to make the linux boxes report a hostname or
> whatever to the router?
>
>  I'm unhappy to say the router is a Microsoft MN-700 (I had a
> Linksys but lightning killed it) that refuses to allow me the
> option of static IP's (if it did that, I would know which IP was
> which machine). The two Xbox's on the network also only show IP's
> but if I can just get the Linux boxes to show a hostname I won't
> have to wade through 4 ip's to figure out which is which. Right now
> I have a list of the MAC addresses printed and taped to the printer
> so I can tell the difference.
>

/etc/hosts is where IP's and hostnames go.

I hve never used DHCP so I don't know if it respects the hosts file or 
not.  The format is shown in the file,  eg

192.168.0.5       jose.happy.net	jose

The second name is an alias so you don't see the full hostname all the 
time.




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Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont.Can

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