Re: DHCP and debian
What is the settting that allows you to set the hostname on the client? I
run dhcpcd on my linux box on a Win network, and my dhcpc always sets my
hostname to dhcpc1. Where is this seting you are talking about i've been
trying to find it for weeks.
On Tue, 25 May 1999 shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> >
> > 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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