HELP: Dealing with /etc/hosts in a DHCP environment...

From: Guy Dallaire <gdallaire_at_gustave.revenu.gouv.qc.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:31:08 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,

We are about to install an NFS client on some of our PC's (We have NT
Workstations, servers, and Win95 clients). The NFS client we are using is
File Access from InterGraph. We are using the pcnfsd daemon.

We are having no problem right now accessing the files from the PC's, but
we discovered that in order to be able to connect, the client's address
must be declared in the /etc/hosts file of the server exporting the
filesystem.

This could be manageable in a fixed address environment, but most of our
client PC,s will get their IP adress via DHCP.

We are not using BIND not NIS here.

Is there a way to have the dynamically generated addresses automatically
"know" by the exporting server ? Or some other method than /etc/hosts to
list the potential NFS clients ?

Thanks in advance
Received on Wed Oct 15 1997 - 03:48:42 NZDT

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