On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:45:38PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
>
> The Linksys will get DNS information from the service provider and will set
> itself up as the router for the network. It will also hand out internal IP
> addresses (for the systems I want it to). What I want, though, is for the Mac
> to get an assigned IP address and the DNS info from the router (standard DHCP
> way of doing things). HOWEVER, I'd like the linux box to have a manually
> configured IP address and get the DNS info from the router.
I think you're making this too hard. DNS server information rarely changes,
so the simplest thing to do is to use a static DNS server configuration for
your Linux system (or set up a cache-only namerserver). The easiest thing to
do is to write down the DNS servers that your Linksys router gives you and
add them to /etc/resolv.conf. You can combine that with your static IP
address and everybody's happy. Your Linux system can have static IP and DNS
addresses, and your Mac can be dynamic. You can mix and match.
For a home network, statically assigned isn't that hard and is what I've done.
My 4 systems all have static IP addresses, and I run a DNS server on my Linux
system (it's up all the time). The internal addresses are all in the
192.168.0.x range, and the Linksys router is the only one that needs to ever
see the WAN address.
.../Ed
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