On Friday 04 August 2006 08:34, Paul Howarth wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> My local home network runs with most of its machines having fixed >> addresses, referenced in their host files. >> >> But I do have a dhcp server setup for when ever my lappy is powered up >> and logs in thru a wap11 from its builtin broadcom radio. >> >> How can I rig my dns lookups so that I can still ssh into this lappy by >> its name, diablo.coyote.den when its given a dynamic address by dhcpd? >> As it is, I have to goto the lappy and run an ifconfig to find its >> address and ssh to that. Cumbersome. > >Might be easier to have your DHCP server assign your laptop the same >address every time. That's what I do on my home network. > I'd assume that would be by linking the MAC address to its host file address somehow, but I'm afraid I need tutoring on that. >Paul. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
