...ouch, you are absolutely right.
I indeed have another machine running an DNS server and were thinking
about migrating onto the endian machine.
Should have had a closer look. 8)

Thanks again and sorry for bothering
Peter

Shaun Skillin (home) schrieb:
> Hi Peter,
> I think the issue is that you are using EFW to resolve DNS queries, however 
> EFW only has DNS proxy capability, not DNS server capability.  Do you have 
> another internal server, or something that can be used as a DNS server?  That 
> is the location where you could put DNS entries.
>
> Shaun
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Pellegrini [mailto:ppel...@gwdg.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:52 PM
> To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Efw-user] DHCP and (multiple) hostnames.
>
> Hi Shaun,
> thanks for your reply.
> I know it is possible but I do not know how to do it in the endian
> webinterface.
> I am using dhcp with fixed leases (so I do not want to use the hosts
> file ) but there is no place to define any hostname at all.
> How do I tell the local DNS to resolve the different names to IP Adresses.
>
> thanks, regards
> Peter
>
>
>
> Shaun Skillin (home) schrieb:
>   
>> Hi Peter,
>> You can always put multiple hosts in DNS, which point to the same IP.  I
>> think the question is - who resolves names to IP for the hosts?  If it's
>> DNS, then use DNS, if it's a hosts file, then use that.
>>
>> Shaun
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Pellegrini [mailto:ppel...@gwdg.de] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:28 AM
>> To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Efw-user] DHCP and (multiple) hostnames.
>>
>> Hi there,
>> how can I assign one (or better multiple) hostname(s) to a
>> PC/mac-address using dhcp with a static lease?
>> Is it possible to do that without using /etc/hosts (or modifying
>> dhcpd.conf by hand)?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>> P. Pellegrini
>>
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