On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:59:54 -0400 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
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>Alternatively, you may query your local DNS box (many DHCP-serving
>"routers" do local DNS), by using either nslookup or dig
Lewis:
Thanks for HOSTS tip.
I'm not using local DNS. My dhcp is from IJFW, where the dhcp server supplies the dns that I
input, so technically, I guess I could run BIND and point to that (more effort than I wish to make
so probably never will install Bind). I just point to my ISP's DNS.
With static IP, the connections log of IJFW translates the ip to the hostname from the HOSTS file.
Apparently I can't do something similar with dhcp. Since there are so few hosts here it really
doesn't matter, I was curious because I figured a large organization reviewing log files might want
to know which host assigned a specific IP.
>You need to have a local domain name configured in the box for this to work, however, or it will
>not understand the -d request.
Explains why I never had much luck when I played with dig. ;-)
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