On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:57:09PM -0400, Jabka Atu wrote: > I'm upgrading my small home network . > today i use /etc/hosts on each machine to figure out where each host > goe's as in : > > 192.168.0.1 whitebox.rent.net whitebox > 192.168.0.2 bluebox.rent.net bluebox > 192.168.0.3 blackbox.rent.net blackbox > > since if i do any change in machine ip i will be forced to update all > files. > how can i make it _dynamically_ (As in if some computer is connected > to the network then all other computer know about it .
Install dnsmasq on the box that connects to the internet and leave its /etc/hosts file as is, or add to it when you add a box. On the other boxes, remove the network lines from /etc/hosts so that only the localhost line remains. Then, you need each box to treat the main box as a nameserver. Unfortunatly, there are several ways to do this in Debian. There's the lines in /etc/network/interface that works with the resolvconf package or you just edit the /etc/resolv.conf file per the man page. If you want to assign IPs dyanamically, dnsmasq is also a DHCP server and can handle that too. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
