On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme >how this work ? Will this approach require the network sysadmins to ssahme >change their (internal) DNS configuration ? Our network admins know of ssahme >only one OS: Windoze, and generally don't know d*** about ssahme >Unix/Linux/*BSD, so I am a little hesitant to try anything that requires ssahme >their intervention.
yes they would have to point the machine(s) to that DNS, for optimal performance they should be going to a machine on the internal network anyways(and best security). ssahme >but this would require: ssahme > a) updating the LM hosts file on a lot of windoze boxes ssahme > b) changing the file everytime my linux box's IP address changes ssahme > because of DHCP you could give the linux box a static ip ..if its a permanent station i believe any permanent station should have a static ip. you may be able to setup samba on the linux boxes and then use WINS to locate them..didnt think of that till just now. ssahme >I am not familiar with DNS at all but is there a way to bind/associate a ssahme >hostname+domainname to an ethernet address ? I guess I might have to try ssahme >option (1). try option #3 if you want too :) nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:30pm up 132 days, 11:24, 3 users, load average: 2.67, 2.40, 1.94