On February 27, 2002 10:25 pm, Zoran wrote: > *** Thus you will be the "client" and your ISP the "server". That means > your ISP will setup your client (you) the way they decided to: IP, > nameservers... and host/domainname. > > You can, however, control the host/domainname provided by your ISP as far > as your internal network goes. Internally you can call your machines > anyway you want, externally it is the host/domainname provided by your ISP > which will be used.
Right, and the hostname the box has I wish to preserve. However, I am using one of these wacky cable networks that requires that you pass the correct hostname to the dhcp server in order to retrieve an ip, so I need some way to specify that hostname as well. Thus far the only two solutions that I have come across are: 1) Change the system hostname - I've already rejected this as there are ways to work around it fairly easily 2) Alter the ifup script to pass a hostname - This is the most viable solution that I've come across thus far and I've done this once before. However, it seems that there must be a better way to do the same. David Aikema _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
