----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mail List - SLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 8:35 AM
Subject: [SLUG] DHCPD hostnames


> I have dhcpd running on a machine on my network with "get-lease-hostnames
> on".
> Some machines that use this dhcpd pick up their assigned lease hostname
> which says that this function is working, as reported by /bin/hostname.
> Others don't, staying with the default localhost.localdomain even though
> there is a valid hostname in the DNS.
> What determines whether the default hostname gets overridden by the
> assigned hostname.

G'day Howard,
There are a couple of things to check.

Do the machines that this is working for already have a hostname defined
(init scripts)?

Can you force one of the clients to renew their lease and see what happens.
I believe you can ask dhcp to give some more output than normal with a
command line option(-d) and this usually gives a better idea as to why it is
not working.

Are any of the machines RH6.x as there are some problems with is dhcp
client.


---Gareth Walters


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