Re: Handing out host names

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On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 13:53, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:

> > Server: Red Hat v8.0 with dhcp-3.0pl1-15 installed
> > Client: Red Hat v8.0
> > 
> > Here's my /etc/dhcpd.conf, MAC addressed changed to protect the
> > innocent:
> > 
> > --
> > ddns-update-style none;
> > subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> >         option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.200;
> >         option routers 192.168.1.1;
> >         option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> >         option domain-name "mydomain.org";
> > 
> >         range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.50;
> >         next-server server.mydomain.org;
> > 
> >         host server {
> >                 hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:00;
> >                 fixed-address 192.168.1.200;
> >         }
> >         host client {
> >                 hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:01;
> >                 fixed-address 192.168.1.201;
> >         }
> > }
> > --
> > 
> > When "client" boots up it's being assigned the 192.168.1.201 IP address
> > so I know I have the correct MAC address entered, however, it's hostname
> > is not being set to client.mydomain.org.  It stays
> > localhost.localdomain.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Are you sure your dhcp client tries to change the hostname?
> For example, dhcpcd's default is not to, unless given the '-H' option.
> 

No, actually I thought this happened my default in Red Hat.  At a training
session I attended we formatted the computers, reinstalled, and when they
booted up their hostnames were already set. 

I couldnt find 'dhcpcd' on my machine but I do have the dhclient-3.0pl1-15 
package installed.  


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