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Re: Client Names and MAC Addresses
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Re: Client Names and MAC Addresses


  • Subject: Re: Client Names and MAC Addresses
  • From: Rob Lewis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:02:07 -0800

I have long felt that there was a need for a single utility that combined the various tedious steps in setting up a LAN with a local name server and unchanging IP addresses.

Here’s how I have to do it now:
1. Make a list of all my networked devices, their MAC addresses, and the IP addresses and host names I want to give them.
2. Log into my router’s less-than-friendly interface, go to the DHCP section, and enter the MAC and IP address information in the “static leases” table. (An operation that, at least with my router’s version of OpenWRT, can fail and cause other problems.)
3. Open up the OS X Server application, and in the DNS section, type in every device’s IP address and host name (I use the “.lan” top-level domain for my LAN).
4. Make sure every device on the LAN is set to use DHCP and my local name server.

This is a huge time waster, and making changes is painful (as is troubleshooting). How great it would be if there was a script or program that did all this!

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