discuss: Home Networking HOWTO
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Home Networking HOWTO
From:
Stein Gjoen ####@####.####
Date:
24 Aug 2005 21:23:57 -0000
Message-Id: <430CE509.9030602@mail.nyx.net>
Just one comments from me on the DHCP-issue.
Richard Schetnan wrote:
[sni]
> the context of home networking. For example, setting
> up DNS and DHCP is great for a corporate LAN, but for
> a home network with three or four computers, it is
> much quicker and easier to use the /etc/hosts file to
> define the network. Simply put, DNS and DHCP are
> completely unnecessary for home networking. This is
Note that some firewalls (including Smoothwall)
and some ADSL-modems (Like Thompson Speedtouch)
have DHCP-functionality already included. I also
believe many wireless routers do too.
My own house net already include 2 DHCP-servers and
enough machines to keep this place rather warm. I am
therefore very interested in your HOWTO.
With the increase in both DSL-coverage and network
attacks I believe there will be an increasing number
of DHCP-boxes in the homes.
If you emphasise the /etc/hosts approach you might
want to include details on reliably handlig updates
as well as parameters for choosing /etc/hosts over
DHCP. Once upon a time /etc/hosts was used across
the Internet. Apparently it was not trivial to keep
it current.
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
