On Monday 16 June 2003 01:25 pm, Technoslick wrote:
> Technically......Yes. The only reason it is working is that your router
> has not ended any leases. With routers that have DHCP capability, I
> believe you can tell all of them (you can with Linksys and D-Link) to
> never terminate a lease. In essence, you have statically assigned
> addresses, with one nice catch. This catch refers to Derek's question
> about how can DHCP alone resolve internal names. Because the router it
> providing DHCP, it also keeps a table of who has what. When a machine
> pings an IP, it broadcasting it over the whole network to every device.
> I believe the DHCP router accepts this request, looks up the assignment
> in its table and sends back the information in the form of another
> broadcast. Anyway, if your router is set to never release a lease, you
> don't need the hosts files setup as you do. Id the leases change, you
> will some day be in name-resolution hell.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
One other point to consider, I've set the IP range that the router assigns to
only cover these 3 IP addresses.
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