Hello,
I'm actually running Debian Wheezy, but I'm hoping what i'm doing is similar to what I would do on Ubuntu.
I've set a static ip address on my server. I've updated /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts to give this server a hostname. I do have a DNS server on our gateway but no entry has been made to this DNS Server for this Debian Server.
My question is..when I scan my network (I'm using Softperfect Network Scanner), any Server/Workstation that gets it's IP dynamically from our router has a hostname displayed. But for this server that I've setup a static IP, no hostname is displayed. Here is what I put into my interfaces file:
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.110.1.179
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.110.1.1
broadcast 10.110.1.255
Do I need to add anything to the interfaces file or to my /etc/hosts file that will broadcast out to my network the hostname associated with this server? Or do I need to add the DNS name to router/gateway so it knows the hostname for this server?
Thank you.
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