Howard Passman wrote: > pfarrell;310807 Wrote: >> I run DNS and DHCP servers on my music server.
> Hi Pat. Question? Do you run an application server or email server on > your network? If not, what advantage do you get from runnng DNS and > DHCP? DNS is mainly about caching, no need to clank to the ISP's upstream DNS. Plus I can assign DNS names for all the computers, laptops, squeezebox, receivers, controlllers, and transporters in the house. I run DHCP because I want control. I assign fixed IP addresses by MAC address, thus every part always has the same IP address. It makes it easy for the Controller to know where the SqueezeCenter is. And since the IP addresses are fixed, its trivial to have the DNS respond with proper DNS names for everything. Since my SqueezeCenter runs on a mostly dedicated Linux box, it was easy. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
