Re: hostname with dhcp-client
Carl == Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carl Anyone know how to set the hostname under dhcp?
Carl send host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
Carl lease {
Carl interface eth0;
Carl option host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
Carl }
You can set your hostname the same way as without DHCP: through
/etc/hostname
You shouldn't put a `lease' into the dhclient.conf: that's only used
to help configure the network if the DHCP server is down.
The `send host-name' directive is meant to tell the server the
hostname you'd like to have. I use this to update the DNS information
for my home network.
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Re: hostname with dhcp-client
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:03:51AM -0500, Carl Greco wrote:
send host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
lease {
interface eth0;
option host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
}
I have used several combinations in the above config file including
setting the hostname and domain names separately.
I don't find an error message from dhclient; however, the hostname
assigned by DNS, i.e., from nslookup on the ip address, is not
`peregrine' but some combination of letter, numbers and dashes.
I was under the impression that the 'host-name' option to DHCP was just
used to look up your machine in the DHCP server's database, and that you
needed to get whoever runs your DNS server to give you the reverse DNS
you want too. I don't think you can just send a host name over DHCP and
expect it to work.
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hostname with dhcp-client
Anyone know how to set the hostname under dhcp? I have
dhcp-client [2.0pl4-2]
debian 2.2 - potato [patched to date]
kernel [2.2.19]
I establish a lease with dhclient with the following config file, i.e.,
[/etc/dhclient.conf]
send host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
lease {
interface eth0;
option host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
}
I have used several combinations in the above config file including
setting the hostname and domain names separately.
I don't find an error message from dhclient; however, the hostname
assigned by DNS, i.e., from nslookup on the ip address, is not
`peregrine' but some combination of letter, numbers and dashes.
I found several messages in the Debian Mailing List Archives that
may be useful but it appears there is a problem with the database. I
get the following message when I attempt to read one of the messages:
The requested URL
/www/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html was not found
on this server.
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Carl Greco
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Re: hostname with dhcp-client
Hello Carl, Saturday, August 11, 2001, 6:03:51 PM, you wrote: CG The requested URL CG /www/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html was not found CG on this server. try it without '/www' so it's /debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html This helped me. -- Best regards, Petermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
