[BC] my troublesome HP OfficeJet 7000

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Some routers have a caching only DNS running and they can enter the names of the connected clients into it. Anything not on known by that DNS gets forwarded to the outside one. This allows anything connected to the LAN to be known by its name, not its IP address. Linux machines can use this capability by entering "PEERDNS=yes" into their /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth# files.

Without this capability, as Cowboy said, stick with static addresses for stable computers. 

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cowboy" <curt at spam-o-matic.net>

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:25 pm, Broadcast List USER wrote:

>  I go ahead and let my router use DHCP take care of things, even the  
>  printers. 

 I wouldn't do that ! At least not without a DHCP reservation in routers
 that are capable.
 If ( for whatever reason ) a printer would be assigned a different IP,
 most OS will have a problem with it.