i am going to guess..... you have ip v6 there, do you need it?
also, is the host name set in /etc/conf.d/hostname ? matt On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Richard Bailey wrote: > Hello, > > I have dnsmasq running and it's running great. When I had my client machine > as Windows XP the dhcp-host option worked and gave the ip for the host I'd > defined in the /etc/hosts file. > > Now my client is a Ubuntu 6.06 machine and it has the same hostname, but it > doesn't get the ip I've assigned. What's different about how Linux does a > DHCP request that causes this and how can I fix it so that it works? > > Note the hostname command in Ubuntu gives the proper hostname but the hostname > -f command returns localhost. I tried to adjust this but some X and other > networking stuff stopped working. > > The contents of the hosts file on my Ubuntu client are: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost bailey > > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > fe00::0 ip6-localnet > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts > 127.0.1.1 bailey > > > - Richard >
