On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:28, Matthew Palmer wrote: > I don't think it will help, actually. Because the machine that needs to > know lonewolf's IP is the machine you're connecting to, which has no idea > that you've gotten that IP via DHCP, and hence can't have updated /etc/hosts > for it.
Sorry - I think I am being unclear :-( I am SSHing TO lonewolf i.e. Remote ---SSH---> Lonewolf(DHCP) (OK - it's a laptop). So I need lonewolf to update it's /etc/hosts when it receives the IP via DHCP. Then when the display is set "lonewolf:10.0" it can resolve itself. > > You need to work out static mappings for your IP addresses, have the > machines which receive DHCP addresses automatically modify their hostnames, > or implement reverse DNS properly. Not sure if SSH turns it's IPs into > hostnames via RDNS, so perhaps the last option might not help - but it's > still good practice. The network I am on doesn't have dynamic DNS(?) so it will not register my hostname. I'm hoping that dhcp would be able to update the hosts file automatically. > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > #include <disclaimer.h> > Matthew Palmer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ************** * Simon Wong * ************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
