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BrianG · 11:11 PM

I did try flushing the DNS, but that didn't work. Even tried disabling/re-enabling the network adaptors to "refresh" them, but no go there either. I just thought it was odd that I could remote desktop between boxes, but pinging and/or network browsing was touch and go.

IIRC, the router's lease is set to one day. Normally, I shut down my main box every day to save power since I won't use it all night and the next day at work. My laptop I leave on pretty much all the time, but it goes into standby. The webserver will be up all the time. The iMac (my g/f's) I'm not sure about. The kids computer is mostly shut off because my son uses it the most and I only get him on the weekends.

What's nice about a static webserver IP is that I can edit the hosts file on all the boxes so that I can use a "www.domain.com" name instead of having to remember an IP address.

kraegar · 11.23.2009, 08:49 PM

Sounds like WINS then, yeah. Damned WINS, who ever thought that was a good idea I don't know.

And yeah, static with a simple host entry is the way to go in the long run. (Or, what I do is dhcp with a reservation, and have my router acting as a local name server)

BrianG · 11.25.2009, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by kraegar

Sounds like WINS then, yeah. Damned WINS, who ever thought that was a good idea I don't know.

And yeah, static with a simple host entry is the way to go in the long run. (Or, what I do is dhcp with a reservation, and have my router acting as a local name server)

I'm not a network guy, so just this basic stuff was giving me a headache. About WINS; all I know is that I've heard of it.

Your solution for having the router act as a name server is ideal as I don't need to go around editing hosts files, but I don't believe my router has that ability.

Actually, my router solution consists of two routers. Router 1 is a wired router with 4 port switch. I like the router function of that one better, so it serves as the DHCP server/router. The other router is a wireless one also with a 4 port switch. I simply disabled DHCP in that one, uplinked it to the wired router. So, it's really just an access point/daisy-chained switch. Plus, 4 ports wasn't enough, so it gives me 7 total (one is being used on the uplink). Yeah, I could have just gotten a single wireless router with more wired ports, but I already had the wired one, so it was cheaper to do it this way.

kraegar · 11.25.2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by BrianG

I'm not a network guy, so just this basic stuff was giving me a headache. About WINS; all I know is that I've heard of it.

Your solution for having the router act as a name server is ideal as I don't need to go around editing hosts files, but I don't believe my router has that ability.

Actually, my router solution consists of two routers. Router 1 is a wired router with 4 port switch. I like the router function of that one better, so it serves as the DHCP server/router. The other router is a wireless one also with a 4 port switch. I simply disabled DHCP in that one, uplinked it to the wired router. So, it's really just an access point/daisy-chained switch. Plus, 4 ports wasn't enough, so it gives me 7 total (one is being used on the uplink). Yeah, I could have just gotten a single wireless router with more wired ports, but I already had the wired one, so it was cheaper to do it this way.

That works. As for having a nameserver, I don't know if any of the off the shelf routers do that, I'm using modified software on mine. (DD-Wrt)

I also have an old one daisy-chained off my newer one, but it's for ssh services... and then I have another I converted into a wireless bridge.