[nmglug] Finding my other Linux machines

[Tim Emerick]

would like to thank all that responded.  Turns out dnsmasq was already
installed on my smoothwall router.  I just had to add an entry to
/etc/dnsmasq.conf for it to scan the DHCP lease file.  DHCP Static IP's were
giving me fits but I figure if it's going to be static then I can just add
them to /etc/hosts on the smoothwall machine for dnsmasq to read.  So far
everything is working just fine!!!

Tim
--- ccosse <ccosse at asymptopia.org> wrote:
> 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:
> >  
> >
> >>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).
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Tim,
> >
> >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";
> >
> >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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