dynamic dns at home?

[Greg Gimler]

 I think you may be better off hard coding the IP address of your mail
server
 and just using DHCP for the laptop and whatever other machines you will
 have.  I have a linksys cable router as well as the tzo service and I'm
 running a web/mail server behind the router.  I also have a couple of
 workstations and laptops that take advantage of DHCP.  All you have to do
is
 give your server an IP out of the DHCP range configured in your router and
 give it a gateway setting configured to your router address as well as
enter
 in the DNS information that can be obtained via DHCP.  Once this is done,
 your IP for the server behind the firewall will stay the same.  The laptop
 then won't be able to grab the IP address of your server if your server
 happens to reboot or shut down.   Also, you can now just edit your other
 machines hosts file to associate your server's static IP with the host name
 you want it to have.

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Duane Morin" <dmorin at morinfamily.com>
 To: <discuss at Blu.Org>
 Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:12 PM
 Subject: dynamic dns at home?


 > Ok, I'm happily up and running with my cable modem and the tzo service
 > (thanks to the list!)  Here's a new question - I want to have a small
 > (very -- maybe 3 machines tops) at home behind my router.  But I really
 > only want to use DHCP to serve the machines (I have a work laptop that's
 > alot happier with DHCP).  But in order for one to work as mail/web server
 > I need to be able to address machines by name.  So what I'm wondering is,
 > can I set up my own little dynamic dns server just for these three
 > machines so that no matter which IP my mail server gets, I can just have
 > the other boxen (one of them being a dumb windows machine) refer to it by
 > name?
 >
 > Oh..umm...I think I just answered my own question -- how would the
 > machines know what IP address to hit for DNS? Hmmmmf.
 >
 > Duane
 >
 >
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