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Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP



On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 16:10:45 +0000
Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

You need to be actually running a local name server if you want to resolve
local host names without using /etc/hosts.

Kevin



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