Re: Handing out host names

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On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 12:19, Caleb Groom wrote:
<snip>
> > 
> > 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.  
> 

I got it working.  Turns out you must have DNS configured for a reverse
look up on the IP address being assigned to the client.

I found this page to be very informative:
http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/2002-January/000835.html

-- 
Caleb Groom <caleb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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