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Howdy, |
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I have two machines that are regularly moved between two sub-nets. |
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One a gentoo desktop, the other (boo hiss) that sorry excuse for an |
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operating system laptop. Now the two subnets are my hardware VPN |
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at home, and the office. Both machines need DHCP. I also have a third |
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box (gentoo) at home on a static ip. Now I mostly access the laptop via |
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VNC over ssh and via scp, rsync, and unison for file transfers. We do |
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not have dynamic DNS available internally. What I currently do is just |
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use nmblookup on the WINS name for each box and update the /etc/hosts |
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file (actually I use a down and dirty perl script to do the update). This |
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works as long as I remember to do it prior to trying to ssh to the laptop. |
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If I forget, then sometimes the gentoo systems seems to get the old IP |
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stuck in cache somewhere where I haven't figured out how to clear it, |
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except by (gag) rebooting. I know, my ignorance. |
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So I'm wondering if there is a better solution and also how to clear |
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the name server cache. |
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Thank you, |
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Roy |
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