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Off on a subject other than Windows CE...
Dave Gotwisner enscribed thusly:
> Looking at 2.0 patch level 18, the software expects a hostname field coming
> from the client in order to determine Microsoft / non-Microsoft for null
> termination. Windows CE does not send a hostname (or any other options :()
> although it still requires a null terminator.
Huh? Oh sh****... And what happens when I set up a Linux box to
specify the hostname when requesting an address? What happens if the
server thinks that this Linux box is a Microsoft client? :-)
I currently do that with the -h {hostname} option to dhcpcd
(yes, the other dhcp client program). I see that it can also be done
with the dhclient program, just not as easy (since the host name is
buried in the config file).
Then there is also the "pump" program which is in the new RedHat
StarBuck (RedHat 5.9 - Pre 6.0 Beta), which is yet another dhcp client.
I noticed that it doesn't currently send the hostname over to the server
and I was just getting ready to try and figure out how to make it do
that as well.
I do that so that I can get the dynamic DNS to pick up the name
of the Linux system and insert it into the DNS. If dhcpd is interpreting
that field to indicate that this is a Microsoft box, what's going to
break when it's wrong?
[...]
Mike
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