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There's no reason this requires DHCP, or even for the DNS server to be on the router. You could assign static IPs everywhere and still have the DNS server perfo
by ac29 6y ago
There's no reason this requires DHCP, or even for the DNS server to be on the router. You could assign static IPs everywhere and still have the DNS server perform lookups to its hosts file.
- rlpb 6y agoYes, of course. I took it as a given that any alternative solution would have to be automatic and so manual configuration of hosts wasn't an option. If you think it is an option, then the answer to your question is obvious: mDNS does it automatically, so you don't have to maintain the mapping and it works for automatic IP address assignments.