[newbie] Re: DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Björn Lundin
Stephen Kühn wrote: > > I know it's running; already been through that with the IRC guys; yeah, > it's running, restarted heaps of times already. The issue is that the > client machine (a customer's machine) doesn't seem to want to pick up > the IP; I can set it up with static and it's right to go

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:52, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: It's not that I want to force a name but it just started happening and I have been using this service since Feb. It kinda through me when I saw it. I though someone had snuck in a back door or something even though I

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:52, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: > > > It's not that I want to force a name but it just started happening and I > have been using this service since Feb. It kinda through me when I saw > it. I though someone had snuck in a back door or something even though > I have a fire

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Raffaele Belardi wrote: Could it not be that the DHCP server of your DSL provider is assigning you a name (and an IP address) when you connect? I know that when I communicated the IP address of my machine to the network administrator for DNS and DHCP I also had to tell them the host name I want

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 11:21 am, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: > Can anyone point me to a comprehensive article, book, etc. for Linux and > DHCP. It seems that my computer, when conected to my DSL changes the > host name on my computer. When I disconnect it returns to normal. Any > ideas on how I c

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Could it not be that the DHCP server of your DSL provider is assigning you a name (and an IP address) when you connect? I know that when I communicated the IP address of my machine to the network administrator for DNS and DHCP I also had to tell them the host name I wanted for my machine. I do

[newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-25 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Can anyone point me to a comprehensive article, book, etc. for Linux and DHCP. It seems that my computer, when conected to my DSL changes the host name on my computer. When I disconnect it returns to normal. Any ideas on how I can change it so that it doesn't do it ? TIA, Maureen Want to