On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:50, Hartono, Susanto wrote:
> 
> add chickie to  /etc/hosts

How do I do that when I don't know the IP address until chickie gets it
from the dhcp server?

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan L Tyree [mailto:alant@;law.usyd.edu.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2002 4:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] dhcp
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I'm trying to switch my small network over to dhcp instead of fixed
> addresses. I have it working, but there is still one question:
> 
> According to Webmin the machine chickie is assigned 192.168.1.100 and
> indeed when I ping that number it responds. But if I 
> 
> ping chickie
> 
> it responds ping: unknown host chickie
> 
> Obviously need to add something - what is is?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
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