Yes, I was starting to wonder when someone was going to mention WINS.
If I hadn't sold my book on this issue I might have looked up the answer
and posted... but iirc wins is the answer to this problem as it acts
like a ddns server.
However ddns is another solution.
Cheers Don
David Kirk wrote:
If you are running samba (at least nmbd) then you can run
# nmblookup hostname
which will get you the IP address.
Hmmm, so how can this info be used instead of DNS??
A cron job to convert the results into a hosts file?
What about adding "wins" to the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
That should do it.
