>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sebastian> You need some form of hosname lookup to convert machine
Sebastian> names to IP addresses. You'd normally achieve this with DNS
Sebastian> or static entries in /etc/hosts. DHCP and DNS tie together,
Sebastian> but are not the same thing.
If you have a small network, you can configure your DNS with names for
all the machines that you expect to have on it, then use those names
in dhcpd.conf
So I have things like this:
group {
# SCO boxen
host echidna {
fixed-address echidna.chubb.wattle.id.au;
hardware ethernet 00:80:48:ea:2b:3d;
}
host crash {
fixed-address crash.chubb.wattle.id.au;
hardware ethernet 00:04:E2:22:44:CA;
}
}
so a machine will always get the same name/IP address as long as it
keeps the same ethernet card.
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