Re: [WinMac] More Questions on Mac DHCP

Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:42:28 -0500

> DHCP has been working flawlessly on our Macs, but as we put in a
> firewall to access the internet, each computer needs a hostname
> or a static IP address (our IS department prefers the hostname
> route). I'm told that if you are running DHCP on the Mac, you
> cannot assign the computer a hostname. Anyone got the scoop on
> this? In the TCP/IP control panel, there's a "select hosts file"
> button -- but no documentation on it, and IS doesn't know what it
> is.

Each computer *can* have a hostname, just not a static one.
Or in other words, DHCP != DNS.

That is to say, all the addresses that the Macs use (as doled out by
the DHCP server) can have hostnames associated with them. For
instance, say you dole out the range 192.168.2.100-200. You'll need a
DNS server somewhere to serve the following addresses:

dhcp100 192.168.2.100
dhcp101 192.168.2.101
...
dhcp200 192.168.2.200

There. Each Mac now has a hostname. It won't always have the *same*
hostname, but from what you describe, your IS dept doesn't really need
that.)

But yeah, the DHCP doesn't give out hostnames, just IPs. The DNS
server (i'm sure someone will kindly give out pointers to the various
MacDNS programs, i use BIND, from www.isc.org/bind.html), takes
care of the hostname -> IP assignment.

Hope this helps.
  

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Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | Geek? Who me? <http://www.darryl.com>


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