[plug] ip address and interface question (new)

[W.Kenworthy]

Never actually seen 'lan' that I can remember.  the majority (inc mine)
are 'localdomain', with a few using the family or own name.

BillK

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 14:21 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> > I do the same thing at home - also works really great for LAN
> > parties... (Plus PHP magic for a intranet list of connected computers,
> > with their names).
> 
> Sounds interesting... Want to share? I assume if a computer reboot's,
> then it'll still be on the list until the DHCP Lease expires?
> 
> >
> > Debian stable's bind9 and dhcpd3 can be very easily configured to make
> > this all work.
> 
> Yer, that's how I first got it running, before migrating to Ubuntu.
> 
> >
> > It's also interesting to note that my internal machines get
> > <machinename>.lan... seems to be a popular suffix for internal nets...
> 
> Lol... I wonder why, it's 3 letters, so it's perfect!
> 
> Tim