Re: DNS resolution on local network
Bob Brown <[email protected]>
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Yeah there's the hosts file of course but I was more curious to know why it even happened in the first place. Thanks Phil for the tip - will check that out. Windows machine has iTunes installed which AFAIK also installs the Bonjouir client. Android tablet doesn't resolve it. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Geoff Barkman <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 - >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DunLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug >> DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/ >> > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff Barkman > ====================================== _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/