Re: [Sheflug] DHCP again

[Richard Stevenson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Steve Tickle wrote:

> Could someone please explain why my Winduhs boxes seem to perform quite
> happilly but my Linux boxes can't successfully ping each other.
>
> I run LinNeighborhood on some of the boxes and they can connect through that
> so it's my guess that the NetBios/NetBeui side of things is OK. From all the
> docs I've read, dhcpd acts as a nameserver so why am I getting this problem?

I suspect those docs are misleading, or unclear.  The DHCP server merely
hands out IP addresses and host configuration information (routers,
netmask, dns server locations, etc).  The daemon doesn't actually provide
any name resolution services; you need to run BIND or one of djb's tools
for that capability (or have some sort of centrally-maintained hosts
file).

Cheers

Richard
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