[hobbit] Monitoring a laptop

Rob MacGregor rob.macgregor at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 20:36:09 CEST 2006


On 4/3/06, David Gilmore <david at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
> I'll have to give that a try today.  I believe the Hobbit box is configured
> to use the Windows DC for DNS.  If it is then that could either be the
> problem, or the resolution.  Since the Windows DC would have the last DHCP
> address cached in DNS it should provide resolution.

Any DHCP client should release it's lease on exit (ie shutdown).  This
means that in a dynamic DNS setup (which you probably have) you'll
find that once the client shuts down the name stops being resolvable.

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