Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Ok, Larry, I have to ask... does your $50 appliance really have a DNS
server in it too?
No. But it will happen someday. ;-) But your question reminds me that
I forgot to mention that the router should be set up to point to your
ISP's DNS. But as I recall, I didn't have complete success with name
resolution of local machines until I switched to using static DHCP IPs
and adding the names and IPs to my /etc/host files. It's really the
best way to go if one's router supports it.
That's what I thought. I find it unlikely that your ISP allows you to
register with their DNS. :-)
To Charles:
Unless you are unable to resolve normal Internet addresses like
gmane.org and cygwin.com (which seems unlikely), then (unless your
router /does/ function as a DNS server) forget all the stuff about
playing with your DNS configurations (unless you intend to actually set
up a DNS server ;-)). It Ain't Broke.
Being able to tell your router to hand out addresses based on MAC's
would be useful, but probably you want to do one of three things:
- Forget about names and memorize a few IP's
- Add some convenient entries to /etc/hosts
- Use Windows' 'ping' any time you need to know a host's IP
...and in either case, update /etc/hosts or your brain when/if your DHCP
leases expire. IOW, keep doing what (if I followed the thread right)
you're currently doing. :-)
--
Matthew
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"What is it?"
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