Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me
On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote:
> > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the
> > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the
> > > correct value of course).
> >
> > Well, that got the router to recognize the hostname, but not the
> > domainname. I'll look into the dhcp documentation and see if I can sort
> > out the rest.
>
> But can you access the Windows machine by name? Before writing my
> previous post I experimented with my own router. No matter what I tried,
> I couldn't access the other machine by name. It seems that my router
> does not have DNS capabilities, so I can either use one of my machines
> as DNS or just populate /etc/hosts, which for two machines is more than
> manageable :)
While your router doesn't have a DNS name server it doesn't mean you won't be
able to use names in your network.
You can set up a name server in one the the hosts in the network, for example,
in the Debian box. I use dnsmasq for this because it is easy to configure and
it can also be a dhcp server.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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