[Linux-disciples] hostname 'announce' on LAN

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:19:37PM +0200, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:14:55PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:36:42PM +0200, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:48:10PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > > > I seem to remember on same LANs you can ping systems by their hostname
> > > > directly (e.g., 'ping joehill' resolves to my computer).
> > > You set up the DNS host on the LAN to have a default domain.
> > Ah hah.  Apparently my router doesn't support local DNS, however, and it
> > is the DNS host (it does permit setting a default domain).
> I don't understand what you write.  You want to set a default domain,
> so if your router does that, use it!  If it is the DNS host, then you
> have local DNS...

AS I understand it, my router, which is the DNS host, doesn't put local
systems in its DNS look-up.  So, I set a default domain on the router.
When I do a DCHP request, it gives me that default domain (i.e., line 1
of /etc/resolv.conf says 'localdomain' or whatever).  But then if I try
to ping some locally named system, I get no address.  I believe this is
because the DNS server--i.e., the router--doesn't have the functionality
to include systems it knows about in its DNS replies.

Does your understanding of the way it should work differ?
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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