On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 10:12, John Russell wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:04, tcg wrote: > > On Friday 02 January 2004 11:46, John Russell wrote: > > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on here and how I can convince > > > machine 2 that machine 1's address is the one from eth0? > > > > Why would "ping" resolve an address through WINS? It seems that DNS or hosts > > is a more likely prospect. > > DNS and hosts file are not capable of resolving dynamic address assigned > by DHCP. When these machines come on line they register with the local > WINS server so that their hostname can be resolved to their new dynamic > address. I have an entry in nsswitch.conf to add wins to the list of > places to resolve hostnames. > > e.g. from /etc/nsswitch.conf > hosts: files dns wins > > without that last entry, I can't resolve any DHCP windows hosts. --- wins provides NETBIOS names - not fqdn names.
DHCP & BIND should be capable of resolving / registering dns names of dynamically assigned addresses if configured to do so. 'man dhcpd.conf' Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba