On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 22:18 -0400, Travis Fraser wrote:
> > not really, I must not have explained myself correctly. I have a local 
> > network with a server that backs up our laptops. The laptops use DHCP to 
> > get their IPs, they are Macs and Linux laptops. For my example I will 
> > use a notebook called "myNotebook". It can't be resoved using DNS 
> > resolution, but nmblookup can find it. 
> 
> If you control the DHCP server, why not assign a known IP address to
> each of the laptops? Then use either DNS, or put the laptop entries into
> the hosts file on the backuppc server.

You don't have to use static DHCP assignments for that. You can tie DNS
and DHCP together so that hostnames resolve. The easy way is to use
DNSMasq. The slightly harder way is to configure ISC DHCPD to update
BIND dynamically.

Regards,
Tyler

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