Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS]

2008-07-02 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Michael Tautschnig wrote: I do not use the 'host-name' clause - just have 'use-host-decl-names on;' once in the group definition (dhcp3). That's exactly what I'm doing - solves the question why it worked for me without the host-name... And it's in the FAI exmaples in the doc - I guess I got

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS]

2008-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
FYI - Forwarded message from Andreas Hirczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Andreas Hirczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:26:47 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu

FAI not picking up hostname from DNS

2008-06-27 Diskussionsfäden James
Hey guys, i noticed that FAI isn't picking up my system's hostname from my DNS servers. it SHOULD be picking them up right? or do i have to explicity set the host address related to hostname in /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/hosts? TIA -James

Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS

2008-06-27 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
James wrote: What's the exact symptom? System won't pickup classes defined cause it can't define system hostname. I noticed it just default sets it to host So, after the install, before faireboot, the hostname command get's you a host? Or is the hostname set corectly in the shell Usually

Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS

2008-06-27 Diskussionsfäden James
So, after the install, before faireboot, the hostname command get's you a host? Or is the hostname set corectly in the shell Usually I only see this, if my DHCP doesn't know the system and gives it a random ip from the pool. yeah, the shell shows [EMAIL PROTECTED] i can type hostname and

Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS

2008-06-27 Diskussionsfäden James
okee dokee thanks for the help Henning Sprang wrote: James wrote: [...] pings fine and no funny logs I'm out of ideas, then. Only checking if the problem exist with a slightly older fai version might be interesting. As I said, the last one I tested is 3.2.6 - and as long as my wifi

Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS

2008-06-27 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hmm, Usually, you can boot very well even if the hostname is not set - you just need to tftp server address. well the dns name has been set to that address in BIND DHCP entry is like: group { # PXE-specific configuration directives next-server