[CLUE-Tech] Home network question

[David Willson]

Simplest:           You could create a DHCP reservation for each mac
address.
Weirdest:           You could use Samba, and it's broadcast/WINS
name-resolution.
Best, but hardest:  IIRC, recent BIND supports Dynamic DNS.  You could
train your boxen to self-register.

David Willson
MCT, MCSE, Network+, A+, Linux Enthusiast
http://TheGeek.NU 


-----Original Message-----
From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
[mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us] On Behalf Of Matt Gushee
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:59 PM
To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Home network question


Well, if you've been following the Debian-DHCP thread, you know I've
finally got DHCP working on one of my Linux boxes, and expect to have it
working on the other shortly. But this solution creates a new problem:

I very often transfer files between my Linux boxes using scp &/or rsync.
Up until now I've been doing that, and other things like ssh-ing, based
on IP addresses. Since I've been starting networking manually for some
time, for all practical purposes these machines have had fixed IP
addresses. But with DHCP working, I can't count on the IP addresses, so
I want to be able to access machines by hostname.

So my question is: what is the simplest way to enable Linux boxes on a
small network to find each other by hostname?

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