network admin question

keith@bytebrothers.co.uk

Hi,

I had a quick look through the FAQ and couldn't find this, so any
assistance gratefully received.

If I have two machines, alice and bob, connected by a router, using
static IP addresses, I can put

192.168.2.5 bob

into the /etc/hosts file on alice, and something analogous on bob.
But how do I set things up so that the two machines know where each
other are when they are obtaining IP addresses from the router via
DHCP?

Thx!

Bill Marcum

keith@bytebrothers.co.uk wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a quick look through the FAQ and couldn't find this, so any
> assistance gratefully received.
>
> If I have two machines, alice and bob, connected by a router, using
> static IP addresses, I can put
>
> 192.168.2.5 bob
>
> into the /etc/hosts file on alice, and something analogous on bob.
> But how do I set things up so that the two machines know where each
> other are when they are obtaining IP addresses from the router via
> DHCP?
> c
> Thx!
>
The DHCP server should have a DNS server which assigns a name to each
client. If that is not the case, bob and alice could email each other or
post their ip addresses on a web page.