From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 30 21:59: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B41152F6 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:59:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@ds.net) Received: from ds.net (i1p65.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.65]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA26260; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:58:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389524A4.D8815C85@ds.net> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:59:00 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Woods Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP routing..... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The latest and greatest versions of BIND (Still BETA if I recall) have support for dynamic DNS - this may or may not be a solution that you're willing to work with. If that's not an acceptable solution you can just hardcode the host/network info at each machine - after all it is only 4. William Woods wrote: > > I have 4 systems, all get their ip's from a dhcp server. They all have > "hostnames". is it possible to telnet/ping by hostname when useing dhcp? if so, > how? I cant use a hosts table because the ip changes.... > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: William Woods > Date: 30-Jan-00 > Time: 20:41:52 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message