Re (8th): DNS lookup failure on Linksys router

Who in their right minds would want to configure a hosts file in a 
dynamic environment?! As I have said before, Linux is not always on (I 
don't always have the system powered up), which is why I  can not allow 
Linux to take over DNS for the network. I certanly don't need to 
configure the hosts file on the Windows computer if they are working 
fine with out it (they can ping Linux by name). It is Linux that can not 
ping Windows by name. This is what I would like to be able to do. Sence 
the router acts as a DHCP server, I should be able to configure BIND to 
extract IP information from the router as if it was an /ordinary /DHCP 
server. My question is: how do I setup BIND to do this? Sence I will be 
using Shirke as an Oracle server (I know, Oracle was not tested on 
Shrike, but I have made it work in the past, and I will make it work 
again), I will mostlikely be changing to a fixed IP, but the rest of the 
network will still be dynamic. There is no reason why I should have to 
configure the hosts on Linux if the rest of the network can change. It 
would be rediculous having to change the hosts everytime I wanted to 
ping someone. How do I setup/configure BIND? If possible, give 
instructions using "redhat-configure-bind 1.9.0" instead of directly 
editing the config files.

>Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:20:44 -0600
>From: Randy Kelsoe <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Re (6th): DNS lookup failure on Linksys router
>To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <[email protected]>
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
>Say what? You said you "can not allow Linux to take over DNS for the 
>network", then you say you want to "set up BIND to work for my penguin 
>(Linux machine  ), only".
>
>This is a lot of work for what you want done. You should be able to add 
>your Windows machines' ip addresses to the /etc/hosts file on your linux 
>box. Then add the linux box and the windows boxes' ip addresses to each 
>of you windows boxes' hosts file.
>
>You can use lynx to access the DHCP page:
>
>    lynx -dump -auth=admin:<password> http://192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm
>
>but the hostnames will be on the popup window when you press the 'DHCP 
>Clients' button.
>

-- 

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Joshua E Vines
[email protected]

-- 
Shrike-list mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list