John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote: >> >> >> ... >> >>> All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp >>> from this server, but they still can not resolve entries in hosts. >> No, they wont. Ever. The hosts file is private to the machine having it. >> >> Define it in bind files instead. >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Carlos E. R. > > Yes, but WHERE is this defined in bind, Carlos. > > Not being a bind wizard, I was asking specifically how I might > add a name such as "securitycam" to bind so that windows > users can just key that into their web browser without having > to know the IP of said camera.
Perfect opportunity for you to buy the O'Reilly BIND & DNS book and set up dns services on linux for your lan. You won't regret the experience. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
