Hi all, When putting multiple centos 5.1 boxes on a network (DHCP for network) and 1 centos 5.1 server is there a way that these clients can automatically "seek" the server. Is there something in centso 5.1 that an inquiry can be sent out that says: Is there a "Product XYZ" on this network? And the server - and not all the clients - can respond to this quiry. Just wondering, trying to reduce my setup time... Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:> Hi all, > > When putting multiple centos 5.1 boxes on a network (DHCP for network) > and 1 centos 5.1 server > is there a way that these clients can automatically "seek" the server. > > Is there something in centso 5.1 that an inquiry can be sent out that > says: > > Is there a "Product XYZ" on this network? > And the server - and not all the clients - can respond to this quiry. > > Just wondering, trying to reduce my setup time... > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosA couple of options: (A) avahi/zeroconf (http://avahi.org/) (B) SRV records --Michael
Jerry Geis wrote:> Hi all, > > When putting multiple centos 5.1 boxes on a network (DHCP for network) > and 1 centos 5.1 server > is there a way that these clients can automatically "seek" the server. > > Is there something in centso 5.1 that an inquiry can be sent out that > says: > > Is there a "Product XYZ" on this network? > And the server - and not all the clients - can respond to this quiry. > > Just wondering, trying to reduce my setup time... > > Jerry > >How do I set the txt part in avahi so inquiring clients might look to the txt part for a Product name. Is that the correct way to do it? Jerry