[geeks] Case for Router/NAT/thingy

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:59:24PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> Heck, a third why.  Unless the Netgear has storage it keeps track of
> DHCP leases on, a computer based DHCP is much more flexible.  The few
> times I have had to reset the linksys, it forgets who had what.  Not
> a biggie, but you also can't tell it to always give a certain address
> to a certain MAC address, or some of the other fun DHCP things...

That brings up a question I've been meaning to ask about.

My NFS server is really unhappy when the client IPs can't be resolved to a
hostname (even though the export file refers to IPs only, not to hostnames).

So, I went and set the DHCP to give my main linux workstation the same IP
everytime.  But, I really don't like this solution.  What is the official way
to tie of hostname to an IP when the IP changes every few days?  Some sort
of dyndns system?  

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Joshua D. Boyd