Hi Leo,
On 2013-01-29 15:25, Leo wrote:
> With the increasing number of computers I seem to be acquiring it's
> getting a bit of a pain to manage hostnames/ips. I have an old
> computer running debian acting as a firewall and dhcp server though.
> So I was wondering is there some way I can get it to record the
> hostnames of the computers it gives ips to? So that if I:
> ping hostname2
> from the computer called hostname1 it won't go looking on the
> internet for hostname2 (as it currently does)?
It's totally possible to integrate DHCP and DNS. You don't mention
which distro, but assuming it's Ubuntu, check this out:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/162265/how-to-setup-dhcp-server-and-dynamic-dns-with-bind
The guide will probably apply to Debian too.
Thanks,
Tony
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