Re: DNS resolution on local network

I think thats one of the many bugs of windoze. There is a hosts file inside
the system directory that you can populate with machine name and ip numbers
to make it work the way you hoped.
Many thanks
Geoff.

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Bob Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A little while ago I installed a Debian server and called it "riwaka". It
> is a bare bones install - only OpenSSH is installed onto it. I chose DHCP
> for the network and it was assigned an IP of 10.1.1.13 on my LAN. It's
> wired but it shares the same network space as wireless clients via my Orcon
> Genius router.
>
> I noticed on my Ubuntu laptop I could "ping riwaka" and I get a response
> from it. On a Windows PC through it can't resolve "riwaka". Both the Ubuntu
> and Windows PC's are DHCP-configured.
>
> At first I figured that it was the router doing the name resolution as it
> as the DNS server that is specified in the DHCP response but in the router
> config it lists DHCP clients of which "riwaka" is notably absent:
>
> 10.1.1.2 name=android_b41ab12268964a9a
> 10.1.1.3 name=android-fafb23eb66e2912b
> 10.1.1.4 name=GuruBobs-iPod
> 10.1.1.5 name=android-5b740b7e8555ac05
> 10.1.1.7 name=toshtop
> 10.1.1.8 name=
> 10.1.1.6 name=Loopys-iPod
> 10.1.1.9 name=squee
> 10.1.1.10 name=SnOOpS-iPhone
> 10.1.1.12 name=OPOHOPC
> 10.1.1.15 name=PAVILION
> 10.1.1.19 name=hpbook
> 10.1.1.20 name=Opoho-PC
>
> Presumably this is a list of DHCP clients that have been seen at some
> point so they can be consistently given the same IP address.
>
> Anyway - my question is - how come my Ubuntu machine can resolve "riwaka"
> to 10.1.1.13?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Bob -
>
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