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pvangarde
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 Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: simple hostname question |
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Okay, I have two computers on my network connected through a wireless router (dhcp). Their IPs are 192.168.2.3 and 192.168.2.6, and they change often.
I was under the impression that we set the hostname of the machine in the /etc/conf.d/hostname file. So, on both machines, the variable HOSTNAME there is set to foo and bar respectively.
The problem: pinging bar from foo does not work, I get an unknown host deal. I can ping the IP address.
How do I remedy this problem?
/etc/hosts
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127.0.0.1 localhost foo
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bunder
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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you either need dns, or the same entries for 192.168.2.x in the hosts file.
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pvangarde
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| bunder wrote: | you either need dns, or the same entries for 192.168.2.x in the hosts file.
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I can't have the same entries in the hosts file because the addresses can change.
So if my router was a DNS server, my hostname would change? Can you explain how to set up the dns info in gentoo? |
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astor84
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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What is the problem with creating address reservations or setting static IPs?
If the IPs are continually changing then there isn't going to be a way for you to set up the hosts file to accomodate that. |
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