Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I do use static IPs. In my Linux machines. I don't know how to set up static IPs in Windows. bullet, baby and blossom have static IP addresses 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4 respectively, but the DNS information from the ISP changes, so I need a DHCP client to update my /etc/resolv.con

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I misdiagnosed the problem. My wife's computer (blossom) is running RH9 > and she gets faster DNS resolution than baby does. Our ISP assigns all > addresses (including DNS) via DHCP. Her /etc/resolv.conf file was being > updated by her dhcp client.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread William Kenworthy
"man dhcpcd" BillK On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:45 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I misdiagnosed the problem. My wife's computer (blossom) is running RH9 > and she gets faster DNS resolution than baby does. Our ISP assigns all > addresses (including DNS) via DHCP. Her /etc/resolv.conf file was b

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I misdiagnosed the problem. My wife's computer (blossom) is running RH9 and she gets faster DNS resolution than baby does. Our ISP assigns all addresses (including DNS) via DHCP. Her /etc/resolv.conf file was being updated by her dhcp client. I emerged dhcpcd and ran it. The problem came from

[gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
My server box is called bullet and my client box is called baby. I use baby to access bullet because bullet doesn't have a reliable monitor. On baby I have a directory called /backup where the nightly backups are recorded to. bullet has the same setup. Within baby:/backup there is a directory ca