You can use ip scanners like Angry IP Scanner (windows) to see which PCs are assigned which IP addresses. It provides NetBIOS info, like computer name, user, etc. as well for Windows-based PCs.
--- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- From: Lloyd Martin T. Yong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:31:19 PM Subject: Re: [plug] Bind DNS not caching? Rafael Sevilla wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:17:26 +0800 > "Lloyd Martin T. Yong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i think it would be nice din but i think matching the IP address with >> the specific MAC address would be a difficult task. >> > > So how do you make IP address assigments for your workstations? It > seems that you're not using DHCP anyway, and have assigned these > addresses statically, so maybe you should just make a local zone file > for an arbitrary top-level domain that is not used outside, e.g. > suysing.internal, and add records for each of the machines you want to > be able to resolve. This is what we do. > > ah.. yes sir currently our ip addressing are statically assigned. but unfortunately, ever since i got into the company the records was not been updated. & there are some cases where in the user together with their respective PC move from one branch to the other ( means they change from one subnet to another) that's why it's gonna be alot of work if im going to start DHCP with MAC address pairing. so sir Rafael do you think would considering with our currently setup, is it much better if i just make a records (zonefile) of the IP address & the hostnames in the current nameserver that i've worked on? currently im starting my research for DHCP... although i'm still quite clueless thank you very much for sharing your incite. -- Lloyd Martin Yong Network Specialist Suy Sing Commercial Corporation 10/F San Fernando Tower No. 514 Plaza del Conde St., Binondo, 1006 Manila Tel: +63 2 247-41-33 Fax: +63 2 243-91-90 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "has the Truth set you free?" _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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