[ML-General] ftp to other computers on my subnet via name instead of dhcp ip address

[Hunter Fuller]

David,

Either you are manually setting your DNS to WideOpenWest's on your PCs
or on your router.

Check your router's web GUI for a "Static DNS" setting, or another
setting where you may have manually entered DNS to hand out to
clients, and remove that setting. Then they will use your router's IP
(probably 192.168.1.1) for DNS and then this will work.

If your router does not have this option, it doesn't support local
DNS, as support said.

Please see the attachment for my working config.
--
Hunter Fuller




On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:33 PM, David <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
> Hunter, here is the cut and paste from nslookup, that uses the ISP's
> (Knology) translation table:
>
> david at Minnie2:~$ nslookup pearl                   // which is a Winblows
> laptop
> Server:        69.1.30.42
> Address:    69.1.30.42#53
>
> ** server can't find pearl: NXDOMAIN
>
> david at Minnie2:~$ nslookup videomonster     // which is a local Linux desktop
> Server:        69.1.30.42
> Address:    69.1.30.42#53
>
> ** server can't find videomonster: NXDOMAIN
>
> david
>
>
>
>
> On 06/20/2016 04:17 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> Please grab one of your PCs' host names. Then on another PC, run
>> "nslookup <that host name>" and paste the results.
>>
>> I would expect that to work out of the box, so I'd like to see it in
>> the act of not working.
>> --
>> Hunter Fuller
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM, David <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> To transfer files via ftp, for example, currently I have to go to the
>>> target
>>> computer, log in, run ifconfig or ipconfig and get it's current dhcp ip
>>> address, write it down so i don't forget, go back to the host computer,
>>> then
>>> ftp to that ip address.  I cannot get the Linksys/Cisco WRT320N router to
>>> use the computer name, versus the ip address, even though it keeps the
>>> dhcp
>>> client list internally to itself.  This has gotten to be just too
>>> aggravating.
>>>
>>> So, is there a way I can get this router to do one of it's most basic
>>> jobs?
>>>
>>> Alternatively, is there a way to have each and every Winblows and Linux
>>> computer on my little home-net keep it's own internal table of computer
>>> name
>>> vs ip addresses so I don't have the hassle every time I want to move
>>> files
>>> from one to another?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>
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