On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 01:36:52PM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 04/07/14 20:42, Chris Green wrote:
I know, I've been here before, but it's bitten me again. With most modern routers/switches not providing local DNS how is one supposed to find out who's who on a small LAN?
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I use dhcpd to assign persistent IP addresses by MAC Address to devices I need to know about. I also have a numbering convention as follows:
a.b.c.1 - a.b.c.199 Workstations etc a.b.c.200 - a.b.c.219 Printers a.b.c.220 - a.b.c.229 Miscellaneous ie. routers a.b.c.230 - a.b.c.249 Servers a.b.c.250 - a.b.c.253 DNS servers (if separate) a.b.c.254 Gateway/Firewall/Router
Yes, I guess that's one way to do it. At least then the devices (e.g. printer, BeagleBone and second router) will always have the same IP address and I can either remember them or write them down.
However it would still be nicer to be able to say 'ssh bbb' to connect to the BeagleBone rather than 'ssh 192.168.1.100', apart from anything else it's generally easier to type a text string than a series of digits and dots.