ping using name instead of ip

[David Mandala]

You can have DHCP give out fixed IP addresses and leave your host files
alone or you can hack with DNS reading the DHCP servers logs and
building the DNS data from that.

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 17:45, mazdaracer wrote:
> Before I used to use fixed addresses on my systems and had the data in
> the hosts file. Now with DHCP, the host files don't know who's around.
> There is really no need for me to use DHCP, but I thought I'd use it to
> learn some stuff. Do I have to make my DHCP server (it's all one box 
> anyway right now) a DNS server? Or?
> pete
> 
> 
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