DHCP & DNS

zephod at cfl.rr.com zephod at cfl.rr.com
Sun Oct 21 21:25:12 UTC 2007


---- Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote: 
> My lazy ignorant suggestion is to reconfigure the router so that you
> know the IP of the two boxes will not change and then use /etc/hosts.

Yes, I know I could do that. It's OK when there are only 2 boxes but what if I had a small office setup with, say, 100 PCs. It's not so practical then. I'm interested in finding out if there is another way to make this work.

Steve

> On 10/21/07, zephod at cfl.rr.com <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > I think my understanding is a little lacking on this subject (one of many).
> >
> > Here is my simple and, I suspect, very common setup: 2 PCs, one FC6 Linux, one Windows Vista and a Linksys wireless router. A DHCP server on the Linksys determines the IP addresses of the 2 machines.
> >
> > My question is: is it possible for either machine to ping the other without having to make an entry in its local hosts file?  Making entries in the hosts file doesn't seem like a good idea since the IP address could, in theory, change.
> > The Linksys is a WRT54G and I don't think that it contains a DNS server. The names of my 2 machine should never get to a public DNS router since they are on a private network.
> >
> > Steve
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