[COLUG] Re: Lan hostname to IP resolution

[david riggs]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions for my:

"What is the best (or easiest?) way to set up so that the system can

figure out for itself the IP address for each machine (as it changes 
over the days) (from the Verizon DSL router)"

With a special nod to Rick for pointing to the Home Server Howto.


However, it looks like that is not so trivial after all. My router software will not let me make fixed MAC to IP assignments, and all the machines in my network are portable, so I cannot assume that any machine will be present to make DHCP assignments if the router does not. 

And I forgot to mention that there is a network printer and a Mac OS9 machine sometimes present.

 So I think that I have to have the router do assignments to machines, and absent proper MAC to IP options, DHCP is the only way. Its so frustrating-- the router knows and displays the hostname of each machine (with its 192.168.1.1 control interface). Isn't there some way to get linux to use  that information? It would be happy to let the router assign IP addresses if I could only get at the hostname to IP information it is holding to use in my linux boxes.

David Riggs
Oberlin