Yes, thank you very much Scot. My router could assign static address to the server. I didn't check, believed that it could do one way or the other. Problem solved.:) kai Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 14:22, Kai wrote: > >>Correct this is a private network, works perfect Thank you Alexander. >> >>The server receives the ip from a router and therefore I'd like to use a >>host name, since ip can change when rebooting router or server. >> >>That would be the next issue since the 192.168.0.100/200 did not do it. >> >>Do I have to enter all the ip addresses given from router to solve this >>or is there a one line solution? > > > Unless your router assigns the same IP address each time you should > consider using static addressing. Some routers are able to assign > reserved IP addresses to devices based on the MAC address of the network > interface in the server. > > Without that capability assign static IP addresses then the entries in > your /etc/hosts file will always be correct. > > For a small home network maintaining /etc/hosts files is not a problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >