[K12OSN] Does LTSP need DNS to work?

Jim McQuillan jam at mcquil.com
Tue Mar 7 13:33:41 UTC 2006


Jack,

DNS is really not necessary.  The LTSP server needs to be able to map 
the IP address of the client to a hostname, but the /etc/hosts file 
provides that capability.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



Jack Palmadesso wrote:
> We are contemplating incorporating LTSP in a corparate LAN.  Since the 
> default host file on the LTSP server has all the entries for the 
> clients I think the answer is that DNS is not nessasary.
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