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 > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant > Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 > Mobile: +61 419 638 170 > Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
