Yeah, I use avahi on my systems as well takes a little bit more setup as I
run Arch (have to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf as well) but works flawlessly
after. You can also add "local" to the additional search domains "search
local" to /etc/resolve.conf, or via network manager and you don't even need
to type the .local at the end.
On 29 January 2013 15:47, Benjie Gillam <benjie@???> wrote:
> 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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