On 11/03/11 13:39, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 10 Mar 2011, Terry Coles wrote:
We have a system at work that uses a Linux box (Live boot) running some
data gathering tools. This information is written to a web page and
served up to a Windows box connected 1:1, (eg no other devices) for
analysis. So far so good.
At present the Windows box provides DHCP and the Linux box advertises it's
hostname. What we would really like to do is get the current Linux box to
provide DHCP and DNS. Can anyone point me at a suitable tutorial or
guidance to explain how to set up and configure such a system?
Having the Windows box do DHCP and DNS is OK, but is likely to cause us
problems downstream, hence the query.
Replying to myself.
Thanks for the suggestions to date (the overwhelming support for dnsmasq).
However, when I related this to my colleage at work he said he couldnt see why
this (or bind) was needed because when he enabled udhcpd, he found that it
maintains a list of all hosts on the network so why couldn't that be used?
I didn't get a chance to look at it this morning, so I couldn't answer him,
but I could bear to know if what he's suggesting is possible.
Any takers?
If it's really just two computers talking to each other, you could just
give each one a fixed IP address, e.g. 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, and
they can talk to each other without requiring DHCP or DNS.
cheers
Chris
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