[mythtv-users] Mythweb finds no remote controllable frontends

Ramon Hofer ramonhofer at bluewin.ch
Thu Jul 21 09:31:55 UTC 2011


On 07/20/2011 09:37 PM, E. Westbrook wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:08, Robin Hill <myth at robinhill.me.uk 
> <mailto:myth at robinhill.me.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Is there any reason you're using DHCP for these rather than using
>     normal static IP addressing though? If you're going to fix DHCP
>     assignation via MAC addresses then it doesn't seem any more
>     convenient than static addresses, but with the downside that
>     you're dependent on the DHCP server.
>
>
> I do it this way myself because then it's only done in one place, and 
> I don't have to go to each and every machine to make adjustments if I 
> add, rename, remove, or renumber a host.
>
> I find that dnsmasq makes it super convenient.  It tells all the local 
> machines to use itself for DNS resolution as well as DHCP, and then 
> resolves the local names for everyone as well as external records.  
> YMMV as always, but I recommend it if you have more than just one or 
> two hosts on your LAN.

Thanks for the info!

Haven't heard of dnsmasq before but it looks very interesting.
I don't know if bind9 may be a bit over sized for my needs...


Regards
Ramon
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