[Bassetlug mailing] Computer name missing in DNS

[Danny Roberts]

I was under the impression that you would need to be using a DNS service 
such as BIND so that the IP addresses would be resolved to host names (and 
vice-versa)?

You can get more info on the BIND website if your interested and it's 
fully Open Source: https://www.isc.org/software/bind

Kind Regards

DANNY ROBERTS
EMEA Cross Platform Services - Evergreen
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This is a lack of a WINS server I think. Can be sorted with a manual
hosts files, but on this occasion I wouldn't simply us the IP
addresses...?

Mark



On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 17:16 +0000, MJ.Wells wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a router that is a DHCP server. I am running a number of Windows 
and
> Linux machines that use it to obtain their addresses, which all do
> successfully. However, although the Windows machines show their 
hostnames in
> the DNS records all the Linux ones (which  bear in mind do successfully
> obtain an IP address) do not and are only listed as 'UNKNOWN'.
> 
> This means that I cannot address any of the Linux machines by hostname, 
but
> have to use their IP addresses after looking them up manually in the 
router
> webpage for its attached devices.
> 
> The Linux machines run Mandrake, RedHat and Ubuntu of several different 
ages
> and versions. I have set the hostname in the HOSTNAME and DHCP client 
files.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas about how I can remedy this?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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