[nmglug] Finding my other Linux machines

[Tim Emerick]

Sam,

Here's the entry I added to /etc/dnsmasq.conf to have it read the ISC DHCP
lease file that was runing on my smoothwall router.  The static assignments
didn't seem to work because they didn't show in the lease file but an entry
in /etc/hosts on the dnsmasq machine solved that problem.  Hopefully you'll
find it useful.

[root at smoothwall root]# cat /etc/dnsmasq.conf
dhcp-lease=/var/state/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
cache-size=5000
filterwin2k

Cheers,

Tim Emerick
 
--- Sam Noble <sam.noble at comcast.net> 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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