Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:50:18PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > look at dnsmasq. I don't use the dhcp part, but it works just fine > out-of-the-box for dns. The box that connects to my (dialup) modem runs > dnsmasq and has all my hosts in /etc/hosts. The other boxes on my > network know the

Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > >> my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 >> months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that >> i'm thinking could be used as the network dhcp instead of my mode

Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/4 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > >> my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 >> months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that >> i'm thinking could be used as the network d

Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 > months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that > i'm thinking could be used as the network dhcp instead of my modem > (which i'm thinking is half

simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Lachlan
i been have tremendous trouble getting my network to see hostnames and and other pc's. it will see everything randomly one day and then be missing the next. my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that i'm