How do I make my client machine name w/IP address visible to the network

[eddie]

Mac gurus I request your help,

I am putting together a small network with 2 clients & 1 server all running Panther 10.3.8. The server is running DNS & Open Directory/LDAPv3.

Although my clients are not DNS servers, is there any way to do a lookup on their static IP addresses in order to resolve the machine name? From the server, using the Network Utility and typing in the IP address of either of my clients, I get a message:

server can't find " " .in.addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

So, my server doesn't know the name of either of my clients. Also neither client knows the name of the other client. Only the clients know the name of the server and vice versa (since reverse DNS lookup is enabled).

This leads into my more relevant question. On both of my clients, in the ftp.log file, I get entries that look like this:

Date Time localhost ftpd[369] FTP Login From ? as username (class:real, type:real)

when one client ftp's into the other client.

If the server ftp's into the client then I get:

Date Time localhost ftpd[369] FTP Login From DNS.server.com as username (class:real, type:real)

which looks like a complete log entry (ftp source machine & user are identified).

So, I need to find a way to make my machine name and associated IP address visible to all of my machines on the network for proper logging. How do I do this? BTW, my private network isn't connected to the outside world (Internet or elsewhere).

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ed