[OT] DNS & DHCP on a router

[Erik P. Olsen]

Ian Malone wrote:
> Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
>>> Quick question:
>>> Should I expect a home router which does DHCP to be
>>> able to resolve names on the local net?
>>
>> No, you'd need a local resolver such as BIND to resolve names to IP
>> addies. DHCP just provides  IP addies, without resolving.
>>
> 
> Okay, thanks to all who answered.
> (And to clarify, yes, I did mean a Linksys box.)

I have a Linksys WRT54G router and it does NOT do any resolve only provide 
IP-addresses. However, I believe D-Link's DI-524 has a way of locking 
IP-addresses to MAC-addresses so that the static /etc/hosts will always be 
correct. For some this setup is adequate.