You are correct Rob! I talked to Ben last night at the beer meeting and he told me that what I need is to set up bind to resolve names in a domain that I will name. I was hoping that IPCop would do this but it does not. The IPCop FAQ mentions this but I needed someone to confirm my understanding and fill in some gaps. Thanks Ben! Even with a few Black Russians in him he can still explain this stuff very well! Now I just have to actually DO IT! Today I have to take advantage of the nice weather to patch the concrete of my homes foundation - playin' in the mud! rbentz at dunwoody.edu wrote: > How about setting up a Name server? BIND or Windoze has recursive > ability, which means you point your client to the local name server for > resolution and then point your name server to IPCop. The name server > will resolve local names and use the IPCop machine as root hint to > resolve others. > The downside is incoming queries, from outside or the red network. I'm > not sure how that would be setup. > --OR-- > Setup a hosts file with all the names and periodically copy it down to > the clients. > > I am assuming that you are simply trying to get name resolution to work, > correct? > > --Rob > >>DHCP works better if I DON'T assign MAC addresses to IPs. >> >>Charlie O wrote: >> >>>Rick, >>> >>>I'm pretty sure that what you need to do, is associate specific mac >>>addresses with specific ip addresses for ipcop to make the > > connection. > >>>Since IPCop is doing DHCP ( ie, assigning IP addresses), you can't >>>guarantee that each machine will always get the same IP. You need >>>static IP assignment for those machines, to associate them with a > > host > >>>name. >>><CUT> >>>Charlie Obert >>> >>>On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:37:30 -0500, Rick Meyerhoff > > <rick at eworld3.net> > >>wrote: >> >>>>I am trying to get my IPCop box working. It is doing DHCP but it > > does > >>>>not seem to be getting the host names from the machines on my > > network. > > <CUT> > >>>>Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff >>>> >>> >>-- >>Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list