localhost or LAN addresses in /etc/hosts
Carl Friis-Hansen
ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com
Sat Dec 13 10:56:01 UTC 2008
Chris G wrote:
<snip>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 05:22:34PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Chris G wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:51:26PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> I'd say you're just thoroughly misconfigured. You _can't_ have isbd
>>>> be
>>>> all three addresses. Personally, I don't think if you're running
>>>> dnsmasq, isbd should be in there at all - _that's_ why you're running
>>>> your own DNS.
>>>>
>>> dnsmasq uses the entries in /etc/hosts to provide information to other
>>> machines on the LAN. Thus it *needs* an entry for isbd somewhere to
>>> tell other machines what isbd's address is.
>> "somewhere". It's a long time since I had a configuration using dnsmasq,
>> but I thought it would use the upstream dns, so if your router is already
>> doing it, it could get it from there.
>>
> The whole point is to make things easy to configure, my router
> certainly *doesn't* know the names/addresses of machines on my LAN and
> I don't really see how it could.
</snip>
In one of my LANs I am using Tomato Linux software on a WRT54g. On this
LAN the router finds the machine names by itself. Wouldn't the machine
names be broadcast to the router?
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