Re: Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients

["Joost Witteveen" <joosteto@gmail.com>]

On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>  My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet:
>
>  10.0.0.2      reidster.net         reidster
>  10.0.0.4      convex.reidster.net  convex
>  10.0.0.4      toys.reidster.net    toys.reidster
>  10.0.0.4      yabman.reidster.net  yabman
>
>  The same box is also a DHCP server, using dhcp3 for a couple of laptops
>  which are transient on the network. I would like to pass the mappings
>  above on to the laptops using dhcp3. Is this possible?

I don't think it is.

What I would do is install a DNS server (eg bind9), and in
/etc/dhcpd.conf put a line like:
  option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.4;
and then configure the bind to serve the mappings you want.
(you'll need seperate files for reverse mappings)