Something is Fishy About My Network
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Thu Mar 5 10:45:33 UTC 2009
Marc Ferguson wrote:
> So here's the meat of my cry-for-help caserole.
>
> - I'm having a problem pinging my hostname. I'll ping it and 127.0.0.1
> is the resulting IP.
> - I see that my router has given my computer an IP address, but it
> doesn't have the hostname in its table.
> - I can't ping, by host name, my computer from any other computer on
the
> home network.
You can set the name of your computer in /etc/sysconfig/network ; mine reads
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=mary.gayleard.com
Also check /etc/hosts on all the computers in your network.
ifconfig will tell you what IP address has been assigned to your machine
by dhcpd;
you can probably change this by editing /etc/dhcpd.conf on the machine
acting as dhcpd server, eg I have
host elizabeth {
hardware ethernet 00:02:2D:21:03:E7;
fixed-address 192.168.2.11;
}
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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