Very cool. But I still don't get how the addresses for fixed address
hosts get resolved.
Bret
Charles Galpin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> > Are you using host files for the internal machine resolution? I use a
> > local dns for my internal network so I don't have to change all the
> > hostfiles every time I add a machine to the netowork. I think there is
> > a DHCP tie to dns somehow I guess I need to read up.
>
> Oh, I should have said that by running a caching only name server, and
> telling the clients to use it, and having the search/resolve order to be
> the hosts file first, you get to do exactly this. You have one hosts file
> to maintain!. In addition, if you have clients that you would like to
> always get the same IP, you would let them conenct once, get their mac
> address and enter something like this to keep them gettign the same
> name/ip.
>
> host piglet {
> hardware ethernet 00:e0:98:03:9d:7b;
> fixed-address piglet.lhsw.com;
> }
>
> where in /etc/hosts I have
>
> 192.168.1.6 piglet piglet.lhsw.com
>
> SO eaxch client does not have to have anything (except localhost) in their
> hosts file. All dns queries go to your dns sevrer who has th emaster hosts
> file, and asks your isp for anything it doesn't know how to resolve :)
>
> hth
> charles
>
> > I was also thinking about the ip address conflict that I found last
> > night and the fact that none of the logs showed anything was wrong. The
> > windows box had a msg box indicating there was a conflict but nothing on
> > any of the linux boxes. Is there some thing I can run that will check
> > for ip address conflicts? I guess I could use tcpdump and check the arp
> > calls for a different hardware address but that seems rather hit or miss
> > and I am certainly not script guru.
>
> using dhcp, you would definatley know if there was a confilict (but
> wouldn't have any conflicts unless using a mix of static and dynamic
> clients)
>
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