Re: Host name and dhcp question

Robert Harris <robert.f.harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

c186282 wrote:
I have a network at home behind an IPcop firewall. Most of my
computers have static IP's. However I would like to move to dhcp. I

Why would you want to do that? It seems silly, not just for the reasons you
your self demonstrate below.

have set up my IPCop firewall to run a dhcp. I also have just
installed Ubuto Linux on one of my computers. The computer's name is
NE. I have this computer access the IPCop's dhcp to get it's IP
address. This works fine. But the host name of the computer NE does
not show up in IPCop. Also I can not ping this computer from my other
computers by just giving the host name. Ping does work if I use the
IP address of NE.

You need a DNS server-- is IPcop also a dns server? Or did you simply put
the names into /etc/hosts?
Ie, there needs to be some machine or the /etc/hosts file which translates
names to IP addresses.


The question:
How do I use dhcp on my local network and still connect to the other
computers by just using the host names?

What am I missing? What man pages do I need to read?

Thank you for your time

You need to edit your file:

/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

so that it contains the line:

send host-name "NE";

Then your firewall will know your computer by name.

Your firewall may, but is it acting as a DNS server as well? That is not
usually the role of firewalls.



Robert
.

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