On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 12:53 +0000, Irving, Dave wrote: > I'd really like to do one of two things: > > Either > 1) Name my box so that it can be seen by name on the local network. Is this > possible whilst still using DHCP...? > If its not: > 2) How do I go about finding a free address on my LAN? Who runs your LAN, and your DHCP server? What platform is it running on? What name service(s) do you use? DNS? WINS? The way I do it is to arrange for my DHCP server (running on a Linux box) to give my Linux boxes static IP addresses (this is done by using a MAC address to IP address mapping on the DHCP server). I also run the DNS for the LAN, and static IP addresses make DNS easy :-) As for the dynamic pool, they get dynamic-looking hostnames too, such as: dhcp-10-1-1-1.intranet.example.com dhcp-10-1-1-2.intranet.example.com Another way of doing it is by using dynamic DNS updates, but that's rather more complicated I think. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
