[NBLUG/talk] hostname question

[Ron Wickersham]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, s smith wrote:

> Hi all.  I have three linux systems and an XP system on my in-house net.
>
> One of the systemhost names doesn't show up in the DNS table on my router. 
> The odd system is on Debian squeeze.  hostname gives the correct name. 
> /etc/hosts is right.  It's been this way since the original install.  What 
> else do I have to do?
>
> Thanks
> SteveS.

normally you'd add the A record and PTR records to your in-house net zone
and in-addr.arpa zone in DNS.   this would have been necessary when you
added the other two linux systems and XP system.   are you running bind
in the router or some other DNS server?

-ron