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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:00:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>
To:        jmutter@ds.net
Cc:        William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DHCP routing.....
Message-ID:  <200002010200.VAA27171@dean.pc.sas.com>
In-Reply-To: <389524A4.D8815C85@ds.net> from "James A. Mutter" at "Jan 31, 2000 00:59:00 am"

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Or ... you could set up your dhcpd.conf file to recognize each system
by it's hardware address and set up a separate entry for each machine
so that it always gets a specific IP address.  For example:

host nebula {
  hardware ethernet 00:50:e4:ba:1c:22;
  fixed-address nebula;
  option routers 192.168.220.1;
  option domain-name-servers 207.69.188.185, 207.69.188.186, 207.69.188.187;
  option domain-name "foo.com";
  default-lease-time 604800;
  max-lease-time 2592000;
}

In this case "nebula" is an entry in the /etc/hosts file.  You can
then install that host file on your 4 hosts.  Since it's only 4 hosts,
it's not too much to keep track of and maintain.  Not as elegant as
the BIND method, but it works for small installations.

-Brian

James A. Mutter wrote:
> 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....


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