first question here...
Premise: this started trying to setup a VM for mucking around with some completely unrelated software... since i want to connect to it through ssh, for ease of configuration (and maybe later, let the server in the VM serve some web pages) I set up a bridged network in Virtualbox I can ping fine with the IP address my host from the vm and vice-versa, but i can't resolve the hostnames...
I already set up BIND on my host for caching dns, so if needed i could tweak something on it if it would be useful to solve this.
I actually never really dig into this topic: sometimes i changed the dns configuration or other simple things on the client side, never bothered to really understand how they work on the server side
So I thought that the responsibility of adding the hostnames to its table was a duty of the dns server...
Instead it seems that (correct me if i'm wrong) it's obviously a duty of the dhcp server to communicate to the dns server the hostnames when an ip address is leased
This means that on the client side there seems to be only one possible misconfiguration: the client doesn't communicate to the dhcp server its hostname when getting the ip (and it seems that on modern linux machines it's like this out-of-the-box)
line 16 of my vm's /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf:
send host-name "<hostname>";
So, unless i'm wrong, it seems completely a fault of the local dhcp server if I don't get my names resolved...
The problem is: I'm living here, but this isn't actually my house (sharing with other 2 guys), so: i could ask for the router password, but i can't blindly tweak it as my liking.
Even if i could, when i was at my home, i didn't remember much configuration possible for the dhcp server (this one is some netgear wifi router btw)
Afaik, having 2 dhcp servers on the same network could be a bit of a problem (and definitely overkill for a home network and only for resolving the name of the vm... )
In the meanwhile i'll simply add the vm's ip address to my /etc/hosts (i guess that another possible solution could be to install avahi-daemon)
Any suggestion/clarification?
