ping using name instead of ip

[Ted Gould]

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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=20
> anyway right now) a DNS server? Or?
> pete

Yeah, that's a good way to go.  A couple of years ago I know that you
needed to apply a patch to BIND to get it to handle the dynamic nature
of DHCP stuff.  I don't know if that patch ever got put into the main
distribution though.

		Have fun,
			Ted

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