On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 18:01, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:17, Brian Payst wrote:
> > You can hand out hostnames as part of the DHCP process:
> >
> > host ws001 {
> > hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > option root-path "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/opt/ltsp41/i386";
> > fixed-address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX;
> > filename "/lts/2.4.26-ltsp-1/pxelinux.0";
> > }
> >
> > Also make sure there is a corresponding /etc/hosts or DNS entry for each
> > host.
>
> The above example passes a hostname to the client. This way, the client
> knows its own name. BUT, that doesn't mean that the server will know
> the hostname. For the server to associate a name with the client, you
> need to make sure you either have the DNS Reverses setup properly,
> or you need to put the entries in the /etc/hosts file for each
> workstation.
>
> What is even more confusing, is that the value you put into the
> /etc/hosts file can be different from the value that you put in
> /etc/dhcpd.conf.
One way to avoid the need to keep DNS and DHCP hostnames synchronized is
to use a host *name* with the fixed-address directive. Instead of
fixed-address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX;
use
fixed-address ws001;
This will cause dhcp to look ws001 up via DNS. While this slows dhcp
down a bit (long enough to do a single DNS lookup), it is only a problem
if your DNS server is overloaded. If you do this, you only have to
maintain hostname-to-IP correspondences in DNS.
--
David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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