Re: bind for beginners

2003-06-10 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Keith, > 1: How do I convert a debian machine from dhcp to static ip > address man interfaces > 2: Can a network exist with some machines dictation their IP > address and other (windows) machines getting their addresses > from a dhcp server, and all of

Re: bind for beginners

2003-06-10 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Keith O'Connell wrote: > 2: Can a network exist with some machines dictation their IP > address and other (windows) machines getting their addresses > from a dhcp server, and all of them play together nicely The way I do this is to have dhcpd assign th

Re: bind for beginners

2003-06-10 Thread Keith O'Connell
> "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Will this enable me to give static addresses to my network >> machines? JH> It is irrelevant to that. You could give your machines static JH> addresses right now. OK - I have been off to have a read of this and I find that

Re: bind for beginners

2003-06-09 Thread John Hasler
Keith writes: > Am I right in thinking that I need to download and install bind and will > the dependencies cover all the needded software? No. The BIND nameserver is only one of several packaged for Debian. I suggest that you look at dnsmasq, for example. > Will this enable me to give static ad

bind for beginners

2003-06-09 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I currently have 7 low-spec machines at home and 4 users. It all works very nicely and the linksys router provides, amongst other things, the dhcp server for the network. Nothing is wrong with it at all. I want to put the nameserver function onto one of