name server via dhcp, but don't want dhcp assigned addresses

2009-09-21 Thread Joel Rees
A quick search of the archives didn't turn up anything I could figure out easily. Background: I have ADSL, with a modem/router that does filtering, dhcp, etc. Since I want to refer to the boxes on the internal LAN (natted to local-address subnet) by name, I have the router set to only

Re: name server via dhcp, but don't want dhcp assigned addresses

2009-09-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 22:39 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I have ADSL, with a modem/router that does filtering, dhcp, etc. Since I want to refer to the boxes on the internal LAN (natted to local-address subnet) by name, I have the router set to only automatically allocate a piece of the

Re: name server via dhcp, but don't want dhcp assigned addresses

2009-09-21 Thread James Wilkinson
Joel Rees wrote: I have ADSL, with a modem/router that does filtering, dhcp, etc. Since I want to refer to the boxes on the internal LAN (natted to local-address subnet) by name, I have the router set to only automatically allocate a piece of the subnet. Usually, all of the internal machines

Re: name server via dhcp, but don't want dhcp assigned addresses

2009-09-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: The WAN side of the router runs dhcp to my ISP, and gets the dns server addresses by dhcp, as well. Check your router's documentation. The way that 99% of these routers are set up, is that they run a caching nameserver internally, and on the local LAN they give their own

Re: name server via dhcp, but don't want dhcp assigned addresses

2009-09-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:37:12, Sam Varshavchik replied, Joel Rees writes: The WAN side of the router runs dhcp to my ISP, and gets the dns server addresses by dhcp, as well. Check your router's documentation. The way that 99% of these routers are set up, is that they run a caching