Re: getting /etchosts from linksys router

From: Philip (noone_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 10/01/03 

Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 07:45:56 -0700
To: nospam@nosite.zzz

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Philip wrote:
>
>
>>I have a 4 port linksys internet router as my DHCP server.
>>
>>My RH9 box /etc/hosts file is hand generated to include the local dynamic
>>IPs it hands out to my other Windows boxes. Fortunately it always hands
>>out the same IP address as long as I do not move the boxes around from
>>port to port.
>>
>>Is there any way to get the /etc/hosts entries more automatically.
>
>
> If this is a local network, and if the machine addresses do not change, and
> if you do not want them to change, why are you using dynamic address
> assignment? Just assign addresses the old-fashioned way by typing them into
> /etc/hosts. Make copies on each machine.

Well that is what I did do, and you are right, the addresses do not change
unless I disturb the local network. So it is not a big inconvenience to do it
manually.

The reason for the post was that I did disturb the local network recently, and
it took me awhile to reset the port forwarding settings in the linksys router to
the new ip addresses. I was just looking to see if there is a pre-existing
automatic way to do this that I was unaware of.

Thanks for the verification that I am not doing it a "stupid" way :)

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