Re: resolving local area network computers via computer name

Hi Jun,
Are your workstations linux boxes?
Mhac

On 11/15/05, R. Martinez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Please enlighten me on this one.
>
> At the office, we are using linux as our server (dev, staging) and we are
> able to access it using it's name 'devserv' without us having to edit the
> our host file in order to map 'devserv' to whatever is the IP address of our
> server. But today, we can't resolve 'devserv' anymore. Our IP address is
> server-assigned by our LinkSys DSL router and the assign DNS's (1 & 2) are
> all public addresses (of our telco provider). Now, how did the
> hostname-to-IP resolution get through even though I'm sure that our DNS's
> server did not have any record of our local server's IP address?
>
> Also, we need to resolve 'devserv' automatically.. what should I do?
> Newbie on DNS here :)
>
>
>
> jun
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