You also have to make sure that the client dhcp configuration file
accepts dhcp to create the client hostname.
Cheers,
Randall
* Tim Brodie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021121 09:22]:
> Georg Baum wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ragnar Wisl�ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:39 am
> > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Hostname assignment
> >
> >>The issue is that thin clients with IP's outside
> > the range
> >>declared with host blabla in dhcpd.conf do not get
> > assigned a
> >>hostname. It's just blank.
> >>What can we do to get every tc assigned a
> > hostname, regardless of
> >>static address or not?
> >
> > Do you have a
> > use-host-decl-names on;
> > in the right scope? Without this statement the dhcp
> > server does not tell the client its hostname.
>
> We are running ISC's V3.0pl1 dhcpd, and the following is my
> dhcpd.conf section that returns a hostname to the client:
>
> group ltsp-pxe-ws {
> use-host-decl-names on;
> option log-servers 192.168.6.19;
> next-server 192.168.6.19;
> filename "pxelinux.0";
> option vendor-encapsulated-options 09:0f:80:00:0c:4e:65:
> 74:77:6f:72:6b:20:62:6f:6f:74:0a:07:00:50:72:6f:6d:70:74:06:01:
> 02:08:03:80:00:00:47:04:80:00:00:00:ff;
>
> host ws001z6 {
> hardware ethernet 00:08:c7:fc:27:58;
> fixed-address ws001z6;
> option host-name "ws001z6";
> }
> }
>
>
> My dhcpd is running on a different box from the tftpd server, which
> is on a different box than any of my nfs mounts, which is a different
> box than my named server. For some reason (since I'm not a dhcpd guru)
> if I don't include the 'option host-name', then the client is assigned
> the same name as my default 'option host-name'. That is, for a
> definition:
>
> host ws001z6{
> hardware ethernet 00:08:c7:fc:27:58;
> fixed-address ws001z6;
> }
>
> "ws001z6" is not passed in my scenario. Is it because I've included
> an option host-name that has global scope?
>
> Anyways, perhaps you have a similar setup.
>
> Regards... Tim
>
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