HOST and DHCP

At the moment my small home network uses Static IP addresses.

I am looking in to DHCP but must admit that having used a Host file on
each computer I find the machine aliases very convenient for some of
my uses - VNC and PING etc.

If I use DHCP I assume I am unable to use any form of alias to refer
to the machines - or is there a way.

Geoff Lane

"Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> At the moment my small home network uses Static IP addresses.
>
> I am looking in to DHCP but must admit that having used a Host file on
> each computer I find the machine aliases very convenient for some of
> my uses - VNC and PING etc.
>
> If I use DHCP I assume I am unable to use any form of alias to refer
> to the machines - or is there a way.
>
> Geoff Lane
>

DHCP has nothing to do with name resolution.
If you want to use aliases and dhcp you should
run a nameserver on the host you will run dhcp from.
The nameserver will then take care of aliases.

You can either then bind the IP´s to the MAC addresses
of your hosts or use DDNS.

With DDNS the dhcp daemen informs the nameserver
witch ip he assignes to a host and the nameserver will then
bind the IP to the hostname.

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:26:08 +0200, "Tim Herty" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:


>> I am looking in to DHCP but must admit that having used a Host file on
>> each computer I find the machine aliases very convenient for some of
>> my uses - VNC and PING etc.
>>
>> If I use DHCP I assume I am unable to use any form of alias to refer
>> to the machines - or is there a way.

>DHCP has nothing to do with name resolution.
>If you want to use aliases and dhcp you should
>run a nameserver on the host you will run dhcp from.
>The nameserver will then take care of aliases.

Right, thanks for the explanation.

Nameservers are a bit beyond my understanding at the moment but one
step at a time - I'll get there.

Geoff Lane