Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Hi Reaz

I've got the nameservers in resolv.conf and so resolving public IP's is 
fine.  It's the hosts on the local network that don't resolve.  I tried 
including the DHCP server's  IP address as a name server but that gave 
some strange errors and didn't help.

I've also got the nameservers referred to in dhcpd.conf.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious ;-)

When I went through the installation I didn't "Configure Hostname" 
because when you "Configure Network" it asks for the hostname.  So I 
suspect that an entry is missing somewhere but I don't know what.  I 
don't want to repeat the installation if I can avoid it because I 
managed to upgrade the kernel for multi-processing which took a bit of 
effort.

/etc/hosts includes reference to the DHCP server's IP address, name and 
"localhost"

Thanks anyway

Regards

Clive



On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 05:38  am, Reaz Baksh wrote:

> Hello
> I hope this helps.
> Modify your /etc/resolv.conf file to include the name servers.  The 
> same
> one the windows machines are using.
>
> The format that I have on my machine is:
> nameserver 24.153.23.66
> nameserver 24.153.22.195
>
> Reaz
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clive Menzies [mailto:clive@clivemenzies.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 8:39 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Resolving hostnames using DHCP
>
> Hi
>
> I've just installed Debian on an HP Netserver LH Pro which was a
> challenge in itself ;).  I am still very much a newbie and not very
> technical.   I've managed to get Linux running on an old Mac and a G4
> plus we've also got 3 Windows 98 PC's on the network.  So far, I've
> installed Samba and dhcpd on the Netserver and managed to get all
> machines accessing the internet via the broadband router using the dhcp
> server.
>
> However, is there a way in which the server can resolve hostnames to
> local IP addresses automatically or do I really have to list them
> manually in /etc/hosts?  It would seem to defeat the object of having a
> dhcp server.  I can ping all the hosts by IP address but only the
> Windows machines can ping using the hostname which I guess means that
> windows is resolving the names in some way.  What's the Linux
> equivalent?
>
> TIA
>
> Clive
>
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