Re: [LUG] Hostname woes

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:43, Mark Evans wrote:
> Can't you switch off the DHCP server or tell it that certain IP 
> addresses are reserved. If it's designed sensibly it won't attempt
> to assign an IP address which is already in use on the network.

Hi Mark,

I tried turning off DHCP before and eth0 on both machines refused to
initialise.

> You probably don't want to do that, if there is any wireless networking 
> involved you really don't want to do that.
> Something like "/home/julian 192.168.1.* (rw)" or "/home/julian 
> 192.168.1.N (rw)"

There is no wireless involved at all thankfully (there was going to be
but happily I found a wired router with the print server at the 11th
hour).

I did not know you could put an IP address in the /etc/exports file. 
What effect does that have exactly?  Is it saying "PCs with this IP
range have access and nobody else"?

I'm completely confused now, because the laptop is off and when I went
to look in Mandrake Control Panel at my NFS mounts, in the servers I had
192.168.1.3 *and* natalie.tartarus.  For one thing I do not have the
foggiest idea how the system has suddenly decided to accept the hostname
natalie.tartarus, and secondly why on earth it is natalie.tartarus and
not just natalie??

my /etc/hosts file has the following:

127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.2  natalie.tartarus      natalie

Is this happening because I still have the DHCP server turned on, so the
server is assigning the IP address 192.168.1.3 and I am independently
telling the system "no the IP address is 192.168.1.2"?

Kind regards,

Julian


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