On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:02:12PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP > addresses. Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure all the > db ips and server ips. > > Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as "db" , "ser" > etc, so that I don't use 192.168.x.x in my configure anymore. > > Is this something that can be done? Could someone please give me some > pointer on how to do it? Some routers have the possibility to assign fixed IPs, but I guess you already checked this. It might also work without DHCP, did you try just putting a static config in the respective /etc/network/interfaces? Also, if the router has some kind of DNS caching it might be possible that it can also resolve the names of your local machines. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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