On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet: > > > > 10.0.0.2 reidster.net reidster > > 10.0.0.4 convex.reidster.net convex > > 10.0.0.4 toys.reidster.net toys.reidster > > 10.0.0.4 yabman.reidster.net yabman > > > > The same box is also a DHCP server, using dhcp3 for a couple of laptops > > which are transient on the network. I would like to pass the mappings > > above on to the laptops using dhcp3. Is this possible? > > I don't think it is. > > What I would do is install a DNS server (eg bind9), and in > /etc/dhcpd.conf put a line like: > option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.4; > and then configure the bind to serve the mappings you want. > (you'll need seperate files for reverse mappings) >
You could install dnsmasq (a caching dns server and dhcp server) which would serve the /etc/hosts contents and then the other boxes (including the laptops) would only have to know that their nameserver is your box. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]