[PLUG] dhcp and /etc/hosts

[Sean Whitney]

You should set up DNS anyway.  It's not hard and it will help you grow.

You can assign static host names to all the DHCP IP's and that can be
done as one line in a DNS file

or you can allow your user's to update a dns server with their
hostnames.


Sean

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:49, Bill Spears wrote:
> OK, when I used static   addresses instead of dhcp, a simple /etc/hosts
> file let me move about my giant network.  How does this work with dhcp?
> I hope this  doesn't mean I have to run DNS.
-- 
Sean Whitney <sean at fork.com>
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