On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:10:08 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > > > > On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal > > > subnet: > > > > > > The same box is also a DHCP server, using dhcp3 for a couple of > > > laptops which are transient on the network. I would like to pass > > > the mappings above on to the laptops using dhcp3. Is this possible? > > You could install dnsmasq (a caching dns server and dhcp server) which > would serve the /etc/hosts contents and then the other boxes (including > the laptops) would only have to know that their nameserver is your box.
Doug and Joost, Thanks for the tips. I have installed dnsmasq and it works beautifully. Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
