hostname and dhcp question

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Fri Jun 30 13:37:08 UTC 2006


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Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have fedora core 5 installed in one of my computer in LAN. One of the
> windows machine acts as the web server (internal) for the LAN but I can't
> figure out how to get the web page served by that machine in my fedora.
> Just
> typing the hostname (http://hostname) doesn't work, I have to put the IP
> address to see the page. What's wrong with DHCP setting? and how to fix
> this?
what puzzles me here is why you have a web server using a dynamic IP?
why not just fix it? How did you decide on|set the hostname for that
box, or is it just doing the WINS thing and broadcasting its desired
name to the other windows hosts on the network?
if you set a fixed IP, you can use either
a) an /etc/hosts entry on all your machines ( or at least the Fedora ones)
or
b) a local DNS server

and it will still work the same way for your windows machines.


> By the way all computers in my LAN have dynamic address which is handled by
> DSL modem router. Other windows machine is behaving correctly, only fedora
> installation is not. What do I need to do? I also checked the network
> settings and found nothing to do with that as it has all automatic option
> checked.

I'm not sure this behaviour is actually 'correct'
how are these other machines locating your webserver? Is this more
Windows networking voodoo? Zeroconf ?


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Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
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