[Klug-general] newbie networking questions

James Morris jwm.art.net at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 12:32:40 UTC 2010


On 8 October 2010 13:30, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 October 2010 13:14, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8 October 2010 12:37, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Most routers allow you to assign an IP to a MAC address.
>>> So everything on the laptop/desktop level works the same (over DHCP) but you
>>> tell the router which IP to give to each device.
>>> Either that or you can set up your own internal DNS server.
>>
>> Thanks. I didn't realize a MAC address was assigned by the hardware
>> manufacturer of the network card. I've done that.
>>
>
> I'm still curious about the internal DNS server idea. Can you give a
> loose outline of how that would work?
>
> Are there not simpler solutions than running DNS servers for a 2 machine LAN?
>

Ah sorry, I think that's what the /etc/hosts file is for.

James



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