On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the > > > correct value of course). > > > > Well, that got the router to recognize the hostname, but not the > > domainname. I'll look into the dhcp documentation and see if I can sort > > out the rest. > > But can you access the Windows machine by name? Before writing my > previous post I experimented with my own router. No matter what I tried, > I couldn't access the other machine by name. It seems that my router > does not have DNS capabilities, so I can either use one of my machines > as DNS or just populate /etc/hosts, which for two machines is more than > manageable :)
While your router doesn't have a DNS name server it doesn't mean you won't be able to use names in your network. You can set up a name server in one the the hosts in the network, for example, in the Debian box. I use dnsmasq for this because it is easy to configure and it can also be a dhcp server. > > Regards, > Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
