Computer Shows up as "unknown" in Router

Carthik Sharma carthik at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 03:10:20 UTC 2005


On 10/29/05, James Fogg <James at jdfogg.com> wrote:
> > I have a D-link router, and have three ubuntu boxes at home.
> > When I got the router management page and look at the DHCP
> > clients that are connected to the router, I see either
> > "unknown" or " " as the name for the ubuntu boxes. Managing
> > these becomes a pain, as i have to resort to finding out the
> > MAC address to do this.
> >
> > The Winxp boxes have their designated names.
>
>
> Do the XP boxes get network configurations from a Windows DHCP Server
> and the ubuntu boxes don't? That would be the problem. I would guess
> that your router is doing a reverse name check and the nameserver is the
> Windows server. If you have the ubuntu boxes use DHCP and configure the
> Windows DHCP server auto-update DNS for non-capable devices you will
> solve your problem.
>
No, the dhcp server in this case would be my wireless router, I guess,
which assigns all computers IP address in the local net (the
192.168.0.101 kind of addresses).

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