Try adding ".local" to the existing hostnames now to invoke mDNS/Zeroconf - e.g. `ping hostname2.local` . If you don't have it installed it's just a `sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon` or similar away. When I had a Linux DHCP server at home it Just Worked(TM), but that was a few years ago now. You have to install avahi-daemon on each linux machine, it works automatically on Macs (because they invented Bonjour), and on Windows it works if you install the Bonjour tools I think.
DHCP/bind integration is the better solution (and only requires software installed in one place, and only once) but zeroconf is (was) considerably easier. It may even already work!
On 29 Jan 2013, at 15:29, Tony Whitmore <tony@???> wrote:
> 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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