dynamic dns at home?

[melniker at eecs.tufts.edu (Douglas Melniker)]

keep in mind that dhcp doesn't necessarily mean that the boxes will get
random IPs. you can specify in the dhcp server the IP that a particular MAC
address will have. so, in essence, the boxes will have static IPs. they'll
just be getting their IPs from the dhcp server.

i just reread your message... you don't specify if you're using a linux box
as a router or a linksys or netgear or something similar. i don't know if
you can do what i mentioned on one of those commercial cablemodem routers.
but what you could do in that case is keep your laptop using dhcp; make the
web/mail server static, and you're all set. just make sure to set the dhcp
server to use addresses after the ones you have assigned to the other boxes.

hth,
doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss at blu.org [mailto:owner-discuss at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Duane Morin
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:12 PM
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> 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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