MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 12:10 pm, klussier at comcast.net wrote:
> > I just set my dhcpd.conf file to assign the same address to both MACs:
> >
> > host neilmobilewired {
> >   hardware ethernet 00:40:F4:12:54:96;
> >   fixed-address neilmobile.jenandneil.com;
> > }
> > host neilmobile {
> >   hardware ethernet 00:11:95:04:db:45;
> >   fixed-address neilmobile.jenandneil.com;
> > }
> Um, well..... That is interesting. I've never used a DNS name in the
> dhcpd.conf file like that. I've always put in an IP address. I'll have to
> give this a try. It's simple. One IP address for both NICs based on DNS
> name. I like that.

Well, it shouldn't make a difference from a DHCP point of view if you use 
names or numbers, so long as DNS resolution is reliable to the DHCP server 
(in my case, the same box).
-N