Who in their right minds would want to configure a hosts file in a
dynamic environment?! As I have said before, Linux is not always on (I
don't always have the system powered up), which is why I can not allow
Linux to take over DNS for the network. I certanly don't need to
configure the hosts file on the Windows computer if they are working
fine with out it (they can ping Linux by name). It is Linux that can
not ping Windows by name. This is what I would like to be able to do.
Sence the router acts as a DHCP server, I should be able to configure
BIND to extract IP information from the router as if it was an ordinary
DHCP server. My question is: how do I setup BIND to do this? Sence
I will be using Shirke as an Oracle server (I know, Oracle was not
tested on Shrike, but I have made it work in the past, and I will make
it work again), I will mostlikely be changing to a fixed IP, but the
rest of the network will still be dynamic. There is no reason why I
should have to configure the hosts on Linux if the rest of the network
can change. It would be rediculous having to change the hosts everytime
I wanted to ping someone. How do I setup/configure BIND? If possible,
give instructions using "redhat-configure-bind 1.9.0" instead of
directly editing the config files.
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:20:44 -0600
From: Randy Kelsoe <randykel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Re (6th): DNS lookup failure on Linksys router
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <41C9E52C.4040300@xxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Say what? You said you "can not allow Linux to take over DNS for the
network", then you say you want to "set up BIND to work for my penguin
(Linux machine ![;-)]() ), only".
This is a lot of work for what you want done. You should be able to add
your Windows machines' ip addresses to the /etc/hosts file on your linux
box. Then add the linux box and the windows boxes' ip addresses to each
of you windows boxes' hosts file.
You can use lynx to access the DHCP page:
lynx -dump -auth=admin:<password> http://192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm
but the hostnames will be on the popup window when you press the 'DHCP
Clients' button.
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