Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 08:42:57 -0400 (AST) From: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> To: michael <killjoy@burnvictim.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dorm room ethernet Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980212083826.25842A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980211152731.11669B-100000@shell3.ba.best.com>
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> I have a friend who lives on our university campus and her apartment is > wired for ethernet. I was interested in piecing together a machine running > 2.2.5 and plugging it into her wall. However the school uses DHCP and Well, onve you install the DHCP package, your machine will get an ip address just like everyone else. Using BSD is not going to make much difference in this respect. > issues out funky names for each machine connected. I was wondering if it > was possible to do something such that I can broadcast another name > so my machine would respond to the default name and my customized name. > > something like this: > default: ss-d0015.resnet.ucsc.edu > what I like: beta.resnet.ucsc.edu This is set up in their DNS. Our campus allows the students to fill out a form for DNS aliases. That is the only way you could get your beta.resnet.scds.edu name. There is an alternative. Check up dynip.com or ml.org. They offer dns services. Basically you put a command in your init script so as soon as your machine gets an ip it posts it their dns. You could then use something like beta.ml.org. Assuming that is not taken. Of course when you log in somewhere your machine will show up as ss-d0015. Just make friends with the sysadmin and get him to stick it in the table :) -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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