Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-02-02 Thread Leo
Thanks for that. I gave dnsmasq a go and it seems to have worked. Should make my life much simpler. Leo On 29/01/13 15:43, Alex Dicks wrote: On 29/01/13 15:29, Tony Whitmore wrote: On 2013-01-29 15:25, Leo wrote: With the increasing number of computers I seem to be acquiring it's getting a

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Daffin
Yeah, I use avahi on my systems as well takes a little bit more setup as I run Arch (have to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf as well) but works flawlessly after. You can also add "local" to the additional search domains "search local" to /etc/resolve.conf, or via network manager and you don't even need to

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:29:29 + Tony Whitmore wrote: Hello Tony, >It's totally possible to integrate DHCP and DNS. You don't mention >which distro, but assuming it's Ubuntu, check this out: Not even where Leo writes "...an old computer running debian..."? ;-) -- Regards _ / )

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Tony Whitmore
On 2013-01-29 15:43, Alex Dicks wrote: Dnsmasq is a minimal DNS/DHCP server. It's easy to set it up so that you just have one /etc/hosts file on your server, and all other computers just use DHCP with no special configuration. BIND is much more fl

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Alex Dicks
On 29/01/13 15:37, Alan Pope wrote: On 29/01/13 15:25, Leo wrote: from the computer called hostname1 it won't go looking on the internet for hostname2 (as it currently does)? My home router seems to do this for me:- alan@deep-thought:~$ ping wopr.local PING wopr.local (192.168.1.123) 56(84)

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Benjie Gillam
Try adding ".local" to the existing hostnames now to invoke mDNS/Zeroconf - e.g. `ping hostname2.local` . If you don't have it installed it's just a `sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon` or similar away. When I had a Linux DHCP server at home it Just Worked(TM), but that was a few years ago now. Y

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Alex Dicks
On 29/01/13 15:29, Tony Whitmore wrote: On 2013-01-29 15:25, Leo wrote: With the increasing number of computers I seem to be acquiring it's getting a bit of a pain to manage hostnames/ips. I have an old computer running debian acting as a firewall and dhcp server though. So I was wondering is th

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Ian Park
On 29/01/13 15:25, Leo wrote: With the increasing number of computers I seem to be acquiring it's getting a bit of a pain to manage hostnames/ips. I have an old computer running debian acting as a firewall and dhcp server though. So I was wondering is there some way I can get it to record the hos

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29/01/13 15:25, Leo wrote: from the computer called hostname1 it won't go looking on the internet for hostname2 (as it currently does)? My home router seems to do this for me:- alan@deep-thought:~$ ping wopr.local PING wopr.local (192.168.1.123) 56(84) bytes of data. alan@deep-thought:~$

Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Tony Whitmore
Hi Leo, On 2013-01-29 15:25, Leo wrote: With the increasing number of computers I seem to be acquiring it's getting a bit of a pain to manage hostnames/ips. I have an old computer running debian acting as a firewall and dhcp server though. So I was wondering is there some way I can get it to rec

[Hampshire] Hostnames

2013-01-29 Thread Leo
With the increasing number of computers I seem to be acquiring it's getting a bit of a pain to manage hostnames/ips. I have an old computer running debian acting as a firewall and dhcp server though. So I was wondering is there some way I can get it to record the hostnames of the computers it g