[Bassetlug mailing] Computer name missing in DNS

[Rev Mark Pengelly]

That's right Danny.

Often for a mixed LAN of windows and linux machines ip to naming is
resolved by a wins server though, ie you don't go out to the internet
for finding local PC names like Martin is wondering about in our
scenario. Any windows machine runs a WINS server and and this resolves
the net BIOS name.

This provides the ability in windows to browse the 'Network
Neighbourhood' (I think). Different types of windows machines have an
election to decide which will be the browse master. ie an NT server will
beat a win98 box in an election. Often when using a samba server the
samba service provides the WINS service as well and is usually set to
master browser.

Mark





On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:59 +0000, Danny Roberts wrote:
> 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
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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
> 
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> 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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