[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3

[Rick Cook]

> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 16:24, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>
>The windows box uses dhcp to get an internal network
>address (192.168.1.x), so I really can't add it to
>the hosts file.
>

For a simplistic reverse-dns lookup "solution", you can always add a 
name for each IP address that your dhcp server provides to its 
/etc/hosts. For example:

192.168.1.1	dhcp1.localnet
192.168.1.2	dhcp2.localnet
192.168.1.3	dhcp3.localnet

	o
	o
	o

192.168.1.n	dhcpn.localnet


That way, at least the reverse-dns will resolve to something even if it 
doesn't match the name the particular machine uses to identify itself.


Rick