-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2013-04-27 at 13:03 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On 4/27/2013 5:27 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have seen a home router from a cable ISP (obtained free of charge) with a dhcp4 server that can tie IPs to MACs. But then, it has no DNS server, and the interface is cumbersome: IIRC, it reboots on each entry you add.
Every router I have purchases or randomly bumped into over the last many years has a DHCP server built in with mac-address reservations. Its not rare, its the norm, even with Cable ISP supplied routers. Most of them supply WINS services too.
Not the norm. The one I'm using right now has DHCP server, yes, but I can not link macs to IPs. The only adjustement I can make is the start and end address of the lease range, and for how long is the lease. Or disable dhcp entirely. It is a Comtrend CT536+
As for a Router with built in DNS servers, that too is becoming the norm in recent years.
The above model has a DNS server with no configuration posssible.
But unless you are going to be setting up some sort of split horizon DNS scheme, its seldom really necessary to have an in-house DNS server.
I do run a DNS server, simply because I want to. I have it since the times that I used a V90 modem, because lookups were faster. With the bonus of having local names accessible. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlF9g0wACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XkrwCgju6Q3dLJERKoj9iBYhVFTtQZ 1A8AoIgBIn0y92bUmV6nJ0wXzNMyFlqp =YVaz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org