Around 10:25pm on Sunday, October 21, 2007 (UK time), zephod@xxxxxxxxxx scrawled: > Yes, I know I could do that. It's OK when there are only 2 boxes but > what if I had a small office setup with, say, 100 PCs. It's not so > practical then. I'm interested in finding out if there is another way > to make this work. An office setup that you described would probably do this using a domain name server (DNS) such as BIND. This would serve public internet addresses as well as the private network ones - the DHCP server can update the DNS with the dynamic addresses when it allocates them. You can set this up on your GNU/Linux box - I run one for my small home network. Note that if you do, your Windows box would need to be set to point to the GNU/Linux one its primary DNS, but you would want a secondrary DNS server for when the GNU/Linux one is down. You can find some instructions I have written here: http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#bind Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 22:30:49 up 22 days, 8:27, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.01
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