Re: DHCP & DNS


---- Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My lazy ignorant suggestion is to reconfigure the router so that you
know the IP of the two boxes will not change and then use /etc/hosts.

Yes, I know I could do that. It's OK when there are only 2 boxes but what if I had a small office setup with, say, 100 PCs. It's not so practical then. I'm interested in finding out if there is another way to make this work.

Steve

On 10/21/07, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx <zephod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think my understanding is a little lacking on this subject (one of many).

Here is my simple and, I suspect, very common setup: 2 PCs, one FC6 Linux, one Windows Vista and a Linksys wireless router. A DHCP server on the Linksys determines the IP addresses of the 2 machines.

My question is: is it possible for either machine to ping the other without having to make an entry in its local hosts file? Making entries in the hosts file doesn't seem like a good idea since the IP address could, in theory, change.
The Linksys is a WRT54G and I don't think that it contains a DNS server. The names of my 2 machine should never get to a public DNS router since they are on a private network.

Steve

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