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[Hans C. Kaspersetz]

This all seems terribly complicated to set up a little routing between 
three machines.  I have 4 machines at home each with a static IP 
address.  I modified the hosts file on each machine to know about the 
other three machines.  I use my router for DNS and routing to the 
outside word.  This bypasses having to set up a dns server.  Each time I 
add a new virtual server on a machine I update the hosts file on each of 
the machines.  I do this for my linux box, Win2k box, OSX box, ect.

The hosts file can be found in, C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on 
Win2k.  It is in etc/ in Linux and OSX.

Host file might look like this:

# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.0.103   ftp.linuxboxen
192.168.0.103    www.linuxboxen
192.168.0.104     Win98Boxen
192.168.0.104     www.Win98Boxen
127.0.0.1    ftp.localmachine
127.0.0.1    www.localmachine

Just my approach to this problem.

Hans

LeeEyerman at aol.com wrote:

> Jon-
>  
> When you say statically assign everything, you mean setup a DNS 
> server, create names for each machine, point the router at my DNS 
> server to resolve the web/ftp/emails, etc.  The win pcs will then have 
> their own name foo.myserver.com and check the Linux DNS first, and 
> then the router to the net?
>  
> Thanks for the help.
>  
>  
> In a message dated 7/16/2004 12:27:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> jonbaer at jonbaer.net writes:
>
>     | 2) Currently my router is dynamically assigning TCP/IP #'s to each
>     machine.
>     | I know I have to set this up differently.  I want the linux  box
>     to be
>     a http
>     | server, ftp, email, etc, and I want the windows boxes to have 
>     access
>     to the
>
>     You should never dynamically assign static boxes ... I think DHCP on a
>     network you actually run is kinda evil .. if its just you, statically
>     assign everything, I personally think its better in the long run
>     considering dhcpd had a few sec alerts this past year.
>
>  
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