Re: DHCP and debian
>
> On Mon, 24 May 1999 14:14:12 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use
> >our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is
> >this possible?
>
> That actually should be no problem at all. However, I did not try it
> yet.
>
> You might want to take a look into RedHat's init scripts that do DHCP.
> When I tried out RedHat a few weeks ago, I was impressed that RedHat
> not only accepted the IP number offered by DHCP but also did a reverse
> DNS lookup and set the host name to what was stored in the DNS.
> However, I was not able to actually understand these scripts.
>
> Doing stuff like that should be possible with Debian too.
>
Actually dhcp has a setting which will set the host name. Not much real magic
to it.
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