Suan
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| Configuring DNS with DHCP in a home network
Hi,
I have a home network with 2 laptops connected to a router, both running Vista, and one laptop has a Ubuntu VM running within. The router uses DHCP to assign IPs. Right now, apart from being able to connect to another machine's public shared folder using its hostname form time to time, I have not been able to use hostnames for anything else - SSH, other network apps etc.
Seems like I have to set up some kind of DNS server? Is there a way to do this while still using DHCP? Or will I HAVE to assign static IPs to everybody?
Thanks! |
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Stone Mountain, GA | DNS is separate from DHCP. Some DHCP implementations can update a DNS server for local IP's.
You can run Samba on the Ubuntu box as a WINS server. The other option is to set up a LMHOSTS with IP/names. |
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