I'm trying to set up an NFS server on a FreeBSD 7.1 machine to serve a few linux clients. The shares are intended to be mounted at boot through /etc/fstab. Actually I've got everything working by assigning the server a static IP and exporting to "-address x.y.z.0 -netmask 255.255.255.0" (or something like that, i don't recall the exact syntax). But I'd like to get it working with all dynamic IPs (DHCP on a Linksys router).

Basically, I reckon I need hostname resolution on both the server and client sides. Is this possible without changing the network architecture? If so, I'd just like some pointers in the right direction. I found this thread about netbios name resolution on Linux, but I'm not able to test it ATM. Regardless, I'm interested in alternatives as I'd prefer to not install samba. Thanks.

It should be possible to do this with avahi using multicast dns, however What I currently do is simply run dnsmasq on my wtr54gl, and edit the config file to enable dns resolution, and adding the host names, and mac addresses for my main computers that way all computers use dhcp, but the servers are guaranteed to receive the specified ip address, also dns automatically resolves local hosts, ie
ping foo
correctly resolves the local foo hostname as you would expect.

Hya,

With Debian/GNU Linux, I think it is as easy as installing avahi-utils.

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