On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:07:51 -0400
"Nguyen, Son N." <sn.nguyen@ngc.com> wrote:

> Thanks Steve.
> I want to correct previous email:
> I did not set my network card to 192.168.1.16. I got this ip from DHCP
> in the router.
> My purpose is to map the name "nsl.myhome.net" to that ip.
> 
There are a few options here.  If you control the dhcp server, you can
hardwire particular MAC addresses to fixed IP addresses.  If you have a
name server you control, you can use dynamic DNS (invoked via dhclient)
to update the DNS server.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb