Thanks for that. I gave dnsmasq a go and it seems to have worked. Should
make my life much simpler.
Leo
On 29/01/13 15:43, Alex Dicks wrote:
> On 29/01/13 15:29, Tony Whitmore wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Dnsmasq <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html> is a minimal
> DNS/DHCP server. It's easy to set it up so that you just have one
> /etc/hosts file on your server, and all other computers just use DHCP
> with no special configuration. BIND is much more flexible, but probably
> overkill for managing a small home network.
>
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