On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Khalil Foundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit : > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [cut]
> > >
> > > use-host-decl-names on;
> > >
> > >
> > > If you are doing a range of addresses, then I don't know of any
> > > way to hand the hostname back to the workstation.
> > >
> > > Jim
> >
> > one way to handle hostnames to the clients while managing range of IPs
> > is to have a "host-name" option with dynamicaly generated hostnames.
> > here's and example I am using:
> >
> > use-host-decl-names on;
> > option host-name =
> > concat("ws",binary-to-ascii(10,8,"",substring(leased-address,3,1)));
> >
> > This will generate a hostname wich is a concatination of "ws" and the
> > last byte (rightmost) of the client IP. you need to have your
> > /etc/hosts containing all the hostnames with the corresponding IP.
>
>
> If you use dynamic dns updates (ddns) as well, doesn't that remove the need for
> a hosts file? It should be fairly easy to set up. I believe ad-hoc mode has
> been deprecated, but interim mode should work.
>
The hosts file isn't the problem here. You use either /etc/hosts or DNS
so that the server can map a name to an IP address.
The problem he's having here is that the workstation doesn't know it's
own name. It is supposed to get its name from dhcp.
Jim McQuillan
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