RE: DHCP problem....
Hello Phil,
I am not that much worried about the other machines on the network, since
they are Win systems and I am installing Samba on my machine but...... my
machine does not even know itself :(. If I put some sort of static IP
address into "hosts" file this IP address is used when I try to ping say,
"elvis" and the error message that "network is unreachable" shows on my
screen. If I ping the IP address which I pick up from running "ifconfig"
for example, everything works fine.
I can force network admin to give me a static address but.... this is
besides the point <lol>... now the matter of pride is to solve the
problem.... if you know what I mean :))).
Jens Jorgensen mentiond about a script updating "hosts" file
automatically... would you have any idea it should look like? :)
Best regards and thank you for help :)
"Jersey"
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From: Phil Brutsche[SMTP:pbrutsch@creighton.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:36 AM
To: jersey@isys.co.za
Cc: Debian-User
Subject: Re: DHCP problem....
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I just installed DHCP client on Debian slink machine. It works almost
> fine.... it just does not pick up the host name :(. It is seen on the
> network by its IP address only. If I ping it by the name from the local
> console it responds that the host name is not known (I removed its static
> IP entry from the "hosts" file).
> Any suggestions will be appreciated :)
This is how I read your message:
1) A computer running slink called elvis (for example) uses DHCP to get
it's IP# and related information.
2) Someone else on the network tries to ping elvis, and fails
3) Someone on elvis tries to ping elvis, and fails
If this is the case, welcome to DHCP :) The reason #2 and #3 fails is
because there is no way for another system to find out elvis' IP#, either
because the name 'elvis' wasn't found in /etc/hosts (or the equivalent),
or in DNS, as you found out. Your solutions are:
1) convince the local system administrator(s) to use Dynamic DNS. This
allows the DHCP server to update the DNS server's IP# database
2) convince the local system administrator(s) to give you a static IP#
somehow, either through DHCP by MAC address or an outright static IP#
(no DHCP involved)
3) use one of the free dynamic hosting services available on the internet;
an example is www.dhs.org
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@creighton.edu
"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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