From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.24]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2876630 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:40:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4AAE399F.7050206@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:39:59 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090704 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Installing rc7 on T61 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, Jon... On 09/14/09 01:41 am, Jon thus wrote : > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:59:54 -0400 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >> 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. > > Right. I forgot that you were using IJFW. > 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. > > That's true. In my setups, I either query the DNS as I described, or just throw in the towel and use the management tools available (there is a Java-based configuration utility for Novell DNS and DHCP, and there is the web-based iManager; either of which will list assigned hosts). >> 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. ;-) > > :-) Certainly not for your local network. However, dig is the preferred way of querying outside sources (nslookup is considered deprecated, although M$ continues to use it). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------