Re (8th): DNS lookup failure on Linksys router 2004-12-24 - By Gregory L. Hering
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>> but usually the server will give the same address to a particular
machine.
>Not necessarily true, but it can be setup to give the same IP to a certain
MAC address.
I know about setting up the DHCP config files for hard MAC-to-IP addressing,
but I still have seen very consistent addresses on completely dynamic
networks. I think it's probably due to the algorithm used by the DHPC
server to pick the address in the first place, maybe a hash of some kind.
>> BTW, if someone would like to volunteer how the Windows boxes
>> are getting the name info of the Linux box I would love to hear it
> I can tell you, but don't believe me because I am not in my right mind.
> If the linux machine is running samba and samba is setup for the same
>workgroup, netbios does this (when you start smb, it also starts nmbd).
I think that's a very good answer, Randy. Netbios broadcasts names along
with other machine information. I wish I'd have thought of that! :o)
Thanks and Merry Christmas,
Greg
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