Setting up network details...

[Irving, Dave]

> Who runs your LAN, and your DHCP server? What platform is it running on?
What name service(s) do you use? DNS? WINS?

I think probably the best thing for me to do is wait till Monday on this one
and check with a network admin - I don't wanna go screwing something up :o)

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Howarth [mailto:paul at city-fan.org] 
Sent: 26 February 2005 13:00
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: Setting up network details...

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 12:53 +0000, Irving, Dave wrote:
> I'd really like to do one of two things:
> 
> Either
> 1) Name my box so that it can be seen by name on the local network. Is 
> this possible whilst still using DHCP...?
> If its not:
> 2) How do I go about finding a free address on my LAN?

Who runs your LAN, and your DHCP server? What platform is it running on?
What name service(s) do you use? DNS? WINS?

The way I do it is to arrange for my DHCP server (running on a Linux
box) to give my Linux boxes static IP addresses (this is done by using a MAC
address to IP address mapping on the DHCP server). I also run the DNS for
the LAN, and static IP addresses make DNS easy :-)

As for the dynamic pool, they get dynamic-looking hostnames too, such
as:

dhcp-10-1-1-1.intranet.example.com
dhcp-10-1-1-2.intranet.example.com

Another way of doing it is by using dynamic DNS updates, but that's rather
more complicated I think.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>

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