Dexter, you can use hosts files, but it is only useful for those with static ips. You can setup your dhcp server to assign "static" ip addresses. For instance on my dhcp server I have it recognize my laptop mac address. So I have a dhcp assigned static in my office. All of my workstations are dhcp-random and my servers are just static.
You can use a dhcp-dns package that will parse your dhcp leases file and make dynamic entries into a bind name server. I have this running and it is pretty slick. There is a debian package. There are also other similar packages for different dhcp and dns servers. If you are using hosts files at all then you probably have a small enough network that having statically assigned dhcp by mac address makes sense. Cory On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:03:22PM -0800, Dexter Graphic wrote: > If set up a DHCP server on my network, I assume that > means I can no longer use a hosts file for resolving > machine names, so does that mean I need a DNS server > to perform this function? > > Dexter > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
