[CLUE-Tech] Re: Getting the IP

[Joe Daily]

I would issue a static ip using dhcp (as close as you can get). 

Use the following (from my dhcp.conf file)

host esther {
		option host-name esther.home.qnetalpha.com
		hardware esther 00:A0:78:8E:E9:BB
		fixed address 192.168.2.23
} 

This is great I used it on the network at my work for all the machines
floating around.

Good Luck 

Joe Daily

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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:53:05 -0600
From: Roger Frank <rfrank at rfrank.net>
To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Getting the IP
Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us

One Linux box boots and uses DHCP to get an IP address.
In my test setup, machine A gets dhcppc1 and 192.168.0.11.  
>From another machine, call it B, I want to be able to find 
machine A to do ssh and scp to it.  

On machine B I do `ping dhcppc1` and get "unknown host."
That's saying DNS doesn't know about it.  I don't know
that there should be a connection between DHCP and DNS
anyway.

In the real setup (which is the school lab), each machine
would use DHCP but it would provide a name relating to
the physical position of the student station in the
lab, such as phs-501 for a machine name.  But I don't
think that makes any difference for my question.

So how do I find out the IP address acquired with DHCP
of machine A from machine B?

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Roger Frank