On Friday 11 Mar 2011, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
> udhcpd is just a standard DHCP server. All DHCP servers keep a list of
> hosts they've given leases to, either in a database or a text file.
> They have to, in order to work properly!
>
> The issue is, how would you get it so that "ping mybox" worked? Name
> resolution on your local machine will typically look at /etc/hosts and
> then try a DNS lookup. This is usually slightly configurable, but I
> can't see how you'd get the name resolution to use udhcpd's list of
> leases, unless you created a script to watch it for changes and update
> /etc/hosts.
Well. I kind of wondered if it worked that way myself. I thought I'd maybe
missed something.
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