Re: Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:10:08 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote:

On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <reid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear all,

My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal
subnet:

The same box is also a DHCP server, using dhcp3 for a couple of
laptops which are transient on the network. I would like to pass
the mappings above on to the laptops using dhcp3. Is this possible?

You could install dnsmasq (a caching dns server and dhcp server) which
would serve the /etc/hosts contents and then the other boxes (including
the laptops) would only have to know that their nameserver is your box.

Doug and Joost,

Thanks for the tips. I have installed dnsmasq and it works beautifully.

Reid


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