[nmglug] Finding my other Linux machines

[ccosse]

this is what works for me:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml

Sam Noble wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 01:05 -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
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>>I've been setting up a handful of linux workstations on the home lan.  I'm
>>unfamiliar with how to have these linux machines see each other besides
>>static IP and creating /etc/hosts on each machine.
>>
>>My current solution has been to install samba on each machine and have them
>>register with a samba/wins server.
>>
>>I'm sure that I need some sort of Dynamic DNS solution on my lan but don't
>>know where to look.
>>
>>Current lan is a smoothwall 2.0 firewall/NAT/DHCP/WEB & DNS Proxy
>>(http://www.smoothwall.org), couple of WinXP machines and 1/2 dozen Linux
>>machines (one being a Samba File Server).
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>Tim,
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>I (used to) do this with dnsmasq, I'm grumpy with it now 'cause instead
>of integrating smoothly with ISC dhcp, it has it's own dhcp server built
>in now. They did this so projects like smoothwall wouldn't need the
>largish ISC dhcp server and it looks like smoothwall is all set up for
>it to work. Have you tried putting the smoothwall machine as the primary
>DNS server? It might just start working. But it may be helpful
>(necessary?) to put the hostname in the dhcp client config on the
>machines on the lan. I have stuff like:
>
>send host-name "marshall";
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>in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
>
>And when it was all working the machines on my lan could resolve
>'marshall' because their DNS server was the linux box running dnsmasq.
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