> The *hope* is that the following will happen: > > 1. My notebook is assigned 192.168.0.102 by DHCP. > 2. The DHCP server notifies DNS that "notebook IN A 192.168.0.102". 3. > "ping notebook" does the right thing. > 4. I reboot, get assigned .103 by DHCP. > 5. DNS (and its cache) is updated. > 6. "ping notebook" again does the right thing. > > Today the only way for me to get this to work is to ensure that every > possible machine for which I'd consistently want to use a name gets the > same address every time, so I have to configure DNS manually *and* > configure dhcpd to hand out static addresses to each machine by hand. > Tedious as hell.
I have a laptop that I use mostly at work where they use DHCP. I wanted to be able to bring it home and connect it to my network also using DHCP since I don't want to be always changing the network properties. Once on the home network I want to access it by host name. I looked into this a while ago and the only answer I could find involved dynamic dns and that was really overkill for my home network and one laptop. Instead I just had DHCP map the laptop's MAC address to a fixed ip. It's not as elegant as dynamic DNS but was simple and worked. Gerry -- "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
