Joseph Boyer Jr. wrote: > Jasper, > > I would tend to think that the intent of having a host name parameter part of > the NIC configuration is to address the needs of multi-homed machines. At > least that is what I use them for. In my environment most systems have a > public and private interface and I use the hostname associated with each NIC > configuration to properly set up /etc/hosts via configuration RPM. I use the > system name as the "Node name", that is the name you see when you log into > the box or grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network. > >
Correct. Currently we can serve up a different name via DNS (when cobbler manage_dns is turned on) to each interface in a dual homed system, because it has different IP's. --Michael > > Joseph Boyer Jr > Enterprise Technology Services > Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > T +1 646.660.8352 > C +1 646.284.8394 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jasper Capel > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:28 PM > To: cobbler mailing list > Subject: Static networking -- nameserver configuration and hostnames > > Hey all, > > Currently, it looks like you can't provide an installed system with a > working resolv.conf, if you're not using DHCP (of course you can snippet > it). > How about a > cobbler system edit --name=foo.example.com --name-servers="192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2"? > > I also noticed the system's hostname is a property of a network > interface. Is this intended, or should we make the hostname a property > of the system? I think this is kind of confusing; although anaconda > enables you to provide a hostname on each network-line, a system should > only have one. > > Jasper > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
