[CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

Fri Dec 2 18:17:19 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:40 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>
>> And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're
>> effectively static.
>
> If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS.  Linux tools
> just normally make this difficult.   SME server made it handy long ago
> by combining the user entries into the same screen and building the
> separate configs under the covers.  Maybe there is something even
> better now.

Um, no can do: we don't run the DNS here on campus (a US gov't federal
agency), we have blocks of IPs assigned to us. Within our division, we
control the horizontal, we control the vertical.... <g>

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